Great Kids Farm raises awareness among children, families, educators and communities about our common ability to create living educational spaces for our students, cultivate health within our communities and enjoy nourishing food at home. We believe that the ingredients, resources and skills to accomplish these goals exist in every community across the United States.

We share this by welcoming schools, community and religious groups and businesses to the farm through field trips, service days and volunteer opportunities. We also offer training, materials and starter seedlings to schools and communities to start their own gardens and thus replicate this awareness throughout the Baltimore area. Click here for more information on Schoolyard Gardens.

In addition to these exchanges, the farm hosts events to showcase the national farm-to-fork campaign and the good food movement as a whole. We share the story of Great Kids Farm and our schools’ and students’ successful pioneering efforts across the country through public speaking and media outreach. This campaign has brought leaders and policymakers from Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington to Great Kids Farm to learn about - and champion - what is already a national movement. Click here for a list of local and national resources related to the farm to fork movement.

Recent Community Engagement events featuring farm to fork awareness include:

Earth Day Celebration, April 22 and 23, 2010

Tree plantings and garden building brought 60 City Schools students to the farm for service days and dozens of new volunteers to work at the farm.

Schoolyard Greening Workshop, March 2010

Teachers, administrators, parents and greening experts from around the Mid-Atlantic gathered at Great Kids Farm to showcase and share successful schoolyard greening efforts. The Community Greening Resource Network worked with the farm to develop this event featuring presenters from City Schools, Parks and People, the University of Maryland Extension, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and City Blossoms. Resource guides were contributed by Irvine Nature Center and the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation. Funding was provided by the Maryland Agricultural Council.

Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop, February 2010

Teachers who planted schoolyard orchards in fall 2009 learned how to prune and care for their orchards at a hands-on workshop in the farm’s demonstration orchard led by Jon Traunfeld of the University of Maryland Extension.

Please see our events calendar for upcoming events.