Farm-Based Education Network

We can't wait to gather at Fernbrook Farms Environmental Education Center for a professional learning workshop! Please join us November 13 in collaboration with Shelburne Farms and the New Jersey Ag Society. This day-long experience is designed for those passionate about connecting young people with agriculture and the environment. Register by November 4!

https://www.njagsociety.org/farm-based-education-workshop.html

Fernbrook Farms Environmental Education Center

We're teaming up with Wolfe's Neck Center for a day-long meet-up for farm-based educators! Join us 10/4 (or come early for field trips and supper on 10/3! The day will include conversations on early learners on the farm, balancing production and education, favorite farm programs for teens, summer camp, running a mission-based organization, and more!

Register by 9/30!

Farm-Based Ed Meet-Up at Wolfe's Neck Center Join the Farm-Based Education Network for a hands-on, day-long learning experience with farm-based educators and farm to school practitioners.

Register for our Healing the Roots of Racism in Ourselves Series occurring March 22–November 15! Facilitated by Rebecca Mintz and Julia Metzger-Traber, the 6 session zoom series designed for people who want to discover how whiteness has shaped them and practice new cognitive, emotional, and bodily/somatic patterns. This series is a deep dive for people who already have some foundational understanding of structural racism in the US. Join this space to listen, learn, and try out acting differently in our bodies and from our bodies so that we can move with alignment for racial justice in farm-based education and beyond. Hosted by the Farm Based Education Network in partnership with the School Garden Support Organization Network.

Find more information through https://www.farmbasededucation.org/post/healingroots

It's been a while since we've seen you! FBEN is excited to partner with Hawthorne Valley Greenagers, Gould Farm , and High Spirit Community Farm for a series of farm tours, aka a "Learning Journey" around Western Massachusetts (and Columbia County, New York)! Join us September 30 - October 1 for one visit or all four. Itinerary and registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farm-based-education-network-berkshire-region-learning-journey-tickets-415557442497

📷 Hawthorne Valley Farm

It's been a while since we've seen you! FBEN is excited to partner with @hawthornevalley, @greenagers_official, @gouldfarm, and @highspiritcommunityfarm for a series of farm tours, aka a "Learning Journey" around Western Massachusetts (and Columbia County, New York)! Join us September 30 - October 1 for one visit or all four. Itinerary and registration info in profile! 📷 Hawthorne Valley Farm

It's that time of year! Registration is open for the ABCs of Farm-Based Education at Shelburne Farms, October 23-25! This workshop is for you if you're looking to build a farm-based education program, or inspire your existing programming. Fill your toolbox with kid-tested activities while you explore Shelburne Farms’ dairy, farmyard, garden, and forest classrooms. Learn more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abcs-of-farm-based-education-fall-workshop-registration-407566501377

We ❤️ poultry education! This year has been rough because of the risk of avian influenza. Join FBEN, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Pineland Farms on September 22 at 2:30 ET for a free webinar Webinar: "Navigating Avian Influenza: from Prevention to Recovery" Learn how to keep your flocks safe from HPAI. This session will cover signs and symptoms, what to watch out for during fall migration, and how to develop an effective biosecurity and response plan. To register: bit.ly/APHISWebinar_Sept2022_register

Our community lost a beautiful friend - Marshall Webb - on August 11 as a result of a heart attack while swimming in Lake Champlain. Marshall Webb was cofounder of Shelburne Farms, and most recently worked as the Farms' Carbon Drawdown Coordinator. He was a gifted farm-based educator, and shared many stories with visiting groups while he pulled garlic mustard, showed students the wood splitter or scythe, or smiled as he recounted his lifelong closeness to the land and water around Shelburne Farms. If you ever attended the ABCs of Farm-Based Education workshop at Shelburne Farms, you most certainly sat on a bench made by Marshall along a walking trail or fire circle, enjoyed syrup he helped produce, and felt the beauty of the forest which he loved. We extend our deepest sympathies to his family at this time. For more information about his legacy: https://vtdigger.org/2022/08/16/a-birthday-on-earth-day-the-life-and-legacy-of-shelburne-farms-marshall-webb/

Photo: Courtney Ley

Celebrate March 22 from 10-11 am with the Adirondack Watershed Institute] and your students! Tune in at 10 for a student gallery and a talk about the importance of clean water in the Lake Champlain Basin. Registration link in profile 💦

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Understanding how Adirondack lakes, ponds, streams, and rivers function and what is stressing their health is fundamental to conserving these important resources. We don't stop with science, our stewardship program is the largest in the region, and our education programs reach into local schools and get people out into the field. Share this post to your stories and follow our page to keep up to date on our work, what we're learning, and how you can help protect the Adirondack waters you love.

Join , , and peer farmers and farm-based educators this March for a 3-part series on land acknowledgement.

The act of creating and speaking an Indigenous land acknowledgement is a practice that is becoming more common in the eastern parts of Turtle Island. While we experience it as a moment at the beginning of a gathering, it is actually part of a bigger process for our society and for the individual. Throughout this three-part workshop series, we will address the history and purpose of land acknowledgments, examine our unique contexts, and support one another as we each craft a research-based, personalized and heartfelt land acknowledgement. By acknowledging Indigenous people’s relationship to land, and exploring our own relationship to land, we will enter into a process of truth and reconciliation.

Join us! Link in profile ✨

Calling farmers, farm, food and garden-based educators, and those who work closely with land who identify as BIPOC. We’re honored to welcome for a 6-month series starting February 3! Join us! Link in profile 👆🏾

We’re fired up about Vermont’s Agricultural Literacy Week, next week 🔥 The theme is “Land Connections”. Learn more from

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Each year, Agricultural Literacy Week provides a chance to learn more about a certain aspect of the food system and build community.

This year, join us at two exciting online events on November 17th and 18th!

We hope to see you there. Register for these FREE events online—link in our bio.

(Ag Lit Week is presented by and , with generous support from .)