"growing farmers and community for our local food economy"
fat city farmers is a western colorado non-profit, whose mission is to create educational
opportunities for organic gardening and market farming, based on permaculture principles,
for the benefit of community health and emerging local food economies.
opportunities for organic gardening and market farming, based on permaculture principles,
for the benefit of community health and emerging local food economies.
3.Forks Academy: Regional Network of Regenerative Agriculture Farms, and Learning Tours for students - traveling, learning and camping on-farms
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NEW!! September 2019 - FCF Gardening Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Schools:
Fat City Farmers, with the financial support of Aspen Skiing Co. Environment Foundation, releases today a School Grounds and Garden Learning Curriculum that will go for free to all elementary schools in the region. It will also be available for free at www.fatcityfarmers.org for anyone in the world who would like to use it. This curriculum offers lessons for each season of the year and each year of elementary school (k-5) that any teacher can use. It contains on-line curriculum references for grades 6-12. This curriculum includes garden planning guidelines for those who wish to expand the diversity of learning and life possible on their school grounds. It is not necessary to have a vegetable garden to use these lessons, but there are lessons that include vegetable garden activities. We release this curriculum now in honor of the children and youth striking all over the world to wake up everyone to the need to cut the collective carbon footprint to stop climate change. If children are given the chance to learn about their natural environment at school by interacting with it they will have the capacity to teach their parents what they learn and help each and every family to live more sustainably. Working together to plant trees, eat more vegetables and fruits and cut car use by walking, biking and using transit we can all help the Earth and our own health. Thank you to the Aspen Snowmass Environmental Foundation for their steady support of environmental education for people all ages in our region! See this wonderful TedX talk by Deborah Frieze, a local food activist in the Boston region, about how people network to create alternative economic models for food, health care, education, local business and localized government. For me, she's a new-found hero. Read more about her here: https://bostonimpact.org/deborah-frieze/ |
