As part of their service learning program at Glen Urquhart School, eighth graders spent Tuesday morning working with The Food Project.
The Food Project partnered with Glen Urquhart School in 1991 to use half of GUS’s newly renovated, 7,000-square-foot greenhouse. The Food Project has built a national model of engaging young people in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture. GUS middle school students participate in the Food Project’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Seedlings are started in the GUS greenhouse, grown at Long Hill Farm in Beverly, and distributed through farmers’ markets and hunger relief organizations across the North Shore. Each year over 40,000 pounds of vegetables are grown in the greenhouse, without chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
GUS students in sixth through eighth grades participate in educational workshops aligned with their grade-level themes. Sixth graders explore the social problems created by how we grow and distribute food. Seventh graders attend a workday on The Food Project Farm, and learn the pros and cons of a global, industrial food system and a local, sustainable food system. Eighth graders attend a workday on the farm and consider how the decisions they make about what they eat impact the world around them.
For further information, please contact: Kelly Rostad krostad@gus.org
Glen Urquhart emphasizes the importance of community service at all grade levels.Glen Urquhart School, an independent, K-8, day school in Beverly, MA, cultivates original thinkers with a global perspective in the pursuit of academic excellence, intellectual growth, and good character. Through their partnerships with various world organizations and experts in education, such as Harvard Project Zero, MIT Lab, Montserratt College of Art, The Food Project, and NPH Orphanages throughout Central America, Glen Urquhart delivers world-class academics and a world-wise curriculum in an atmosphere of individualized support and care: http://gus.org/
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