Category Archive: News
The Tucson Village Farm hosted a free family-friendly event called the Taste of the Harvest Festival on November 5, 2011. “The Harvest Festival is a cross between your local Farmer’s Market and Costco,” said Elizabeth Sparks, UA Assistant Agent for 4-H Youth Development for the Tucson Village Farm. The Tucson Village Farm is a program [...]
A huge thanks to Emily who spent last weekend manning a lemonade stand to support TVF’s programming! She donated all of her profits to TVF for a total of $38.47! In addition to the lemonade stand, she also instigated a campaign for her birthday party where friends could donate to TVF, rather than give her [...]
Natalie Shepp, a volunteer at Tucson Village Farm submitted an article about TVF to Jamie Oliver’s website! Check it out at: http://www.jamieoliver.com/us/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/news-content/teaching-kids-about-real-food-from-the-g
TVF is already accepting registration for field trips for the 2011-2012 academic year. We offer K-5 programming as well as more advanced programming for middle school and high school. Please look at our programs page for more details and give us a call!
On Friday, May 6th, TVF partnered with Kids Can Cook and Arizona Kids Food Revolution to host a free evening of “Dinner and a Documentary”. The evening kicked off with a food demo by “Chef Jeff” who taught the kids how to make a healthy snack and desert. Dinner was catered by Charmaine Thomas, founder [...]
Now Scheduling Groups for our “Growing Forward” K-5 Agriculture and Nutrition Program Let the farm be your classroom for a morning! This two hour hands-on program cycles groups of students through the “stations” of the farm, where they learn about growing food, cultivating healthy soil, composting, vermiculture (worm farming), pollination, nutrition, and the five food [...]
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