Promoting Agricultural Literacy for a Sustainable Food System
Programs (listed alphabetically)
Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) Farmers Market Tours for Schools: Touring a AIM farmers’ market is sure to be a fresh experience for your students. You'll meet farmers and learn how they grow their crops, where they come from, what's in season, and why they choose to farm. You'll get to know local artisans, bakers, food purveyors and an Agricultural Institute market manager. We believe a day at the farmers’ market will get your students excited about making healthy food choices by building a sense of connection to the people who grow their food.
AIM offers a variety of tours at the Thursday Marin Civic Center Farmers Market. Choose to attend a market orientation, participate in a self-guided farmers’ market treasure hunt, or take a tour with a AIM market manager. Tours are available from 9am-noon.
Farm to Fork: AIM’s Farm to Fork program works with schools, institutions, food service programs and businesses to connect them with local farmers who grow nutritious and seasonal produce, and with distributors that carry local products. AIM advocates, educates and promotes local farm businesses through education, special events, fostering relationships with new customers and assistance in marketing the outstanding locally produced products from our region. AIM staff takes chefs, food service directors, and retailers on a tour of the farmers’ market to meet local producers, form relationships and initiate purchasing of local products.
Farmers Market Tour Request Form
Conservation Corps North Bay Develops youth and conserves natural resources for a strong, sustainable community through education, civic engagement, leadership, and employability. Has developed a 5.8-acre demonstration farm and garden at College of Marin's Indian Valley campus, partnering with UCCE, Marin Master Gardeners, and the College of Marin. See the site plan, college catalogs, environmental landscape program brochure, and photo collage for more information.
Devil's Gulch Ranch Sustainable and diversified agricultural ranch that produces wine grapes, fruits & vegetables, animals, and wind power on 65 acres.
Environmental Education Council of Marin The Marin Food Systems Project aims to rebuild healthy and mutually supportive relationships between Marin County schools, their parent communities and local farms; to reintegrate an understanding that human health is directly linked to the environment; and to create opportunities for students in schools to have hands-on, real world environmental education experiences.
Green Gulch Zen Center Zen practices for students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks.
Headlands Institute Dedicated to providing educational advertures in nature's classroom to inspire a personal connection to the natural world and actions to sustain it.
Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) The Farm Field Study Program offers visits to local farms and ranches including organic vegetable farms, dairies, beef and sheep ranches for students and teachers. Marin Agricultural Presentations for Schools and Community Groups creates and presents talks and displays on Marin Agriculture for schools and community organizations.
Marin Art & Garden Center Promotes awareness of nature and understanding of ecological systems. Through the use of demonstration gardens as educational sites, children and adults explore the importance of habitat, conservation, and stewardship.
Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program (MCSTOPPP) Educational tools for understanding your local watershed. Free coloring books, activity guides, plant cards, composting guides, diorama, and puppet shows.
Marin Organic School Lunch Program Helping to transform the school lunch choices for our kids by offering a combination of purchased and gleaned food from Marin Organic farms to participating school throughout the county.
Regenerative Design Institute of Northern California An educational organization promoting sustainable technologies and methodologies, drawing on the tools and teachings of the permaculture design.
Slide Ranch Offers hands-on weekday and overnight farm workshops primarily attended by school children and community groups in the spring and fall. Organic gardens, goats, sheep, chickens and ducks, along with numerous coastal trails, tide-pools and pocket beaches, provide an ideal outdoor venue for teaching about healthy foods, healthy living, and environmental awareness.
Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed (STRAW) Students participate in professional restoration projects on ranches, famrs, school grounds, and other public lands. They also apply and deepen their knowledge of academic subjects through exploring creek ecology and hydrology, bird and aquatic insect studies, water quality monitoring, mapping, native plants, and nature writing and art with the assistance of STRAW staff and partners.
Watershed Week - Annual three-day teacher training institute in August. Approximately 80 to 100 participants gather to study local ecology, to learn hands-on methods of scientific inquiry, to share ideas about integrating environmental fieldwork with classroom curricula, and to prepare for creek restoration activities during the coming year.
Walker Creek Ranch Marin County Outdoor School Operated by the Marin County Office of Education, this program provides hands-on, field-based activities correlated to core State science standards curriculum. Situated on a 1700-acre former dairy ranch, they offer 4 or 5-day residential programs geared to 5th and 6th grade students. Older and younger age groups are considered, based on availability.
Windrush Farm To expose students and adults to a farm experience that includes animals, natural fibers, and hands-on learning.
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