school to table

School to Table (S2T) seeks to disrupt food injustice by providing in-depth, garden-based education to youth in Baltimore City schools. The goal is to strengthen connections between justice, environmental awareness, and holistic community health. By using on-site school gardens as the classroom, S2T will nurture an informed and mindful generation of change agents that understand how to care for their bodies, their communities, and the earth.

The S2T learning curriculum will engage a student with standards-aligned lessons that bring academic concepts to life through outdoor experiences. The program will encourage exploration and critical thinking as students learn how to collaboratively grow, harvest, cook, and eat their own nutrient-rich food while impacting the broader environment and tackling social justice issues in their own communities.

For students, visits to the on-site green space would include science-based gardening (how plants grow, ecosystems, supporting wildlife, composting, etc.) and nutritional cooking classes using freshly grown ingredients. The goal is to have these learning experiences extend to students’ families as well as the surrounding community through information sharing and collaborative garden workdays and other events.