News and Stories

I get this question all the time. It’s funny. People seem to think, “When the animals disappear, don’t you disappear, too?”

You’ve probably seen the "islands of evergreens" amidst the Farm's pastoral landscape, established based on early ideas of Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1880-90s. Unfortunately, these plantations haven’t aged well. We've started reclaiming them.

When educators gather, something amazing happens that equals more than the sum of its parts. Some say it is when 2+2 = 5, but I like to think about when 2+2= Magic!
That’s what happened October 2nd at the Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms.

We took the world apart—so we could understand it, so we could explain it, and so we could teach it—but we never made it whole again. I believe that education for sustainability offers a remedy to the disconnected, disjointed state of teaching and learning.

Kelp growers. Hospitals. Chefs. Mental health agencies. Food shelves. What do they all have in common? These strange bedfellows are all important players in the Northeast’s ever-expanding farm to school programs.

How we’re building a community of people who care passionately and teach thoughtfully about the land we live on and farm, and the healthy foods that derive from it.

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project partners with IDEA – the Institute for Democratic Education in America to connect, organize, and envision the future for education. Recently, Ryan Morra went with a team of other Vermont education organizations to learn from school transformation visionaries in Puerto Rico.

We're so excited to be launching this new way to connect with you and share with you all the work that we do. Shelburne Farms is many things: farm, education center, historic property, beautiful inn. But above all, we're an organization dedicated to educating for a sustainable future. It's that simple.