5th Grade Farm & Garden
What we do:
- Learn the story of our food and its impact on human health, environments, and communities
- Engage with growing, harvesting, and cooking food
- Interface with experts in the field to better understand the science and future of food
- Experience hands-on lab, kitchen, and garden activities
- Understand sustainability in relation to our food
How we do it:
- Develop an understanding of the differences between food systems: industrial/conventional; industrialized organic farming; local/sustainable; gardened/foraged/hunted
- Gain knowledge and experience in the global implications of different food systems by understanding the journey, process, and impacts our food has on our health and the environment
- Study domestication of crops, global ecological impacts of agriculture, plant genetics, and soil and gut micral biome