Education
Learning as we grow
Here at the Kearsarge Food Hub, we provide learning opportunities to inspire personal connection to our food sources, share regenerative farming practices, and grow the next generation of sustainable farmers and mindful eaters!
From curriculum-based programs for our youth with hands-on opportunities to explore the farm and forest ecosystems, to gardening resources that help us all reclaim the knowledge of how to grow food, our goal is to nurture a community of learners as we form connections with our life-affirming local food system.
Explore programs for students of all ages!
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Community of Learners
We welcome learners of all ages to reclaim the knowledge of growing food at home with us! From a variety of community gardening projects to an ever-expanding index of gardening resources, we’re exploring how to be more self-sufficient—and find more JOY!—by growing our own food.
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Kids Education
We create experiences designed to get kids and teenagers on the farm and into the forest and immersed in the ecosystems that sustain us. Find the right opportunity for your child, classroom, or homeschool group today!
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Farmer Apprenticeship
Learn more about this unique program designed to support new and aspiring farmers by providing access to land, education, markets, community, and mentorship.
Hungry for more?
Our gardening education programming is not just for local kiddos!
We can all get engaged in learning how to grow our own food and enjoy the garden.
All of our programs are:
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Experiential
Because we believe the most powerful learning comes from direct experiences, challenges, and reflection.
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Holistic
Because we seek to educate the whole student, including addressing emotional, social, ethical, and academic needs in an integrated manner.
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Inclusive
Because we believe in the value of diversity and the rights of students to a learning experience that suits their individual needs.
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Rooted in nature
Because we believe that, as part of nature ourselves, the natural world is our first, and most foundational, classroom—where we can truly become ourselves.
A philosophy of learning
All of our education programs are guided by four teaching themes: Growing Food, Food as Medicine, Ecological Learning, and Nature-Based Self-Care.
We believe that by focusing on these four themes, we can help our students not only be successful farmers or food system workers, but happy, healthy community members.
We focus on more than simply knowing how to grow food using efficient techniques; we teach students how to create healthful meals using fresh, in-season vegetables, how to practice self-care techniques (such as whole-body stretches to relieve tension in the body), and how to farm–or garden, or simply enjoy nature—along with the natural systems that sustain us in order to bolster not only farm spaces, but the wider ecosystem.