Growing Leaders
Exploring Food Culture in the Garden
Growing Leaders is a garden-based education program open to all youth age 11-16. Dedicated to empowering the next generation of change makers, Growing Leaders fosters values of Earth connection and stewardship, exploring how food, the way we grow and prepare it, is our cultural heritage. Students gather weekly, Spring through Fall, to create a garden of their own design and bring their ideas full circle, from seed to harvest to preparation to service. Through holistic, hands-on garden and kitchen-based activities, students explore the importance of biological & cultural diversity.
EDUCATIONAL PILLARS
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Throughout the world, traditional wisdom holds biodiversity to be the foundation of healthy ecosystems & food cultivation. From the life in the soil, to seed, to harvest we have depended on a complex web of life.
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Celebrating what makes us unique while honoring the common threads of the human experience, we have the opportunity to contribute to a more peaceful, compassionate world.
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Through food and music, we explore the biological and cultural gifts inherited from our ancestors.
