Growing Forward is our K-5 hands-on agriculture and nutrition education field-trip based program. During this structured two-hour learning adventure, students cycle seamlessly through six stations of the farm learning about growing food, food preparation, whole grains, the importance of calcium, protein, fruits and vegetables in a healthy diet, while getting their hands dirty digging for [...]

It’s almost farm camp time! In this week-long, 35 hours farm immersion, campers experience the ins and outs of farm life through daily farm chores, live animal demonstrations, presenters, hatching live chicks, and daily food preparation. Camp participants prepare all of their own food through the week as well as a luncheon for the parents [...]

TVF Family Workshops are designed so that parents and children can learn side by side.  Topics include, but are not limited to: Gardening with Kids in Your Own Backyard (fall and spring), Composting, Vermicomposting, How to Start Your Own Worm Bin, Easy and Healthy Meal Preparation, and Cooking with Kids.  Please check our events calendar [...]

“Digging Deeper” Middle and High School Service Learning Program This program targets middle and high school youth from public, private, and charter schools as well as community and youth serving organizations.  Participants in this program will work and learn on the farm on a continual basis throughout a semester.  School partnerships at this level are [...]

“Growing Forward” K-12 Agriculture and Nutrition Program 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), nutrition, pollination, and the five food groups.  TVF can accomodate school groups of up to 75 students.  Kids are guaranteed [...]