Farm to School
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Provided by: Center for Ecoliteracy|Published on: August 29, 2025
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Synopsis
- In this video from the Center for Ecoliteracy, students will learn about a youth-created organization in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District to bring produce from a nearby organic farm to local students.
- This video touches on environmental justice as it describes the lack of access that many students have to fresh produce without this program.
Subjects: Civics
Authors: Center for Ecoliteracy
Region: California
Languages: English, Spanish
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This inspirational story of a youth-led organization will empower students to effect change in their own lives.
- The video features interviews with many young people and advocates whose passion is clear as they speak about the project.
Prerequisites
- This video already has subtitles that translate the Spanish to English and vice versa. Teachers will need to turn off the other closed captioning that may pop up, covering up these subtitles.
Differentiation & Implementation
- This video is great for dual language classrooms that speak both English and Spanish.
- After watching, students can discuss environmental justice and analyze other situations where people have unequal access to healthy foods like organic produce.
- Teachers can connect this video to climate change by discussing things like food waste and the impacts of climate change on agriculture.
- To connect this resource to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, teachers can ask students to look at Goal 2, Zero Hunger, and Goal 10, Reduced Inequalities, and analyze their interconnectedness within this situation.
This video showcases a program in California that connects a local vegetable farm to a nearby school. The farm will provide produce to the school for meals, as well as work with the students in a variety of ways. This program is a good example of how local action can make a difference and how anyone can get involved. The video does not discuss climate change or climate justice directly, but they are mentioned briefly throughout the video. The information presented is accurate, and this resource is recommended for teaching.
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About the Partner Provider
Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center for Ecoliteracy advances the teaching and modeling of sustainable practices in K–12 schools. The organization builds partnerships and the capacity of K–12 schools to support healthy, sustainable school communities and food systems change in schools. The Center for Ecoliteracy leads systems change initiatives, publishes original books and resources, facilitates conferences and professional development, and provides strategic consulting. The organization works at multiple levels of scale, with local, regional, state, and national programs.
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