Farm to School Programs

The EduCulture Project at Suyematsu/Bentryn Farms

The EduCulture Project on Bainbridge Island provides local youth lived experiences on local farms that cultivate scholarship, stewardship, citizenship and sustainability. Through a collaboration involving farms, schools, and the community, this initiative has been enhancing classroom curricula, nurturing school gardens, and enriching school lunches, while preserving local sustainable agriculture, and growing future generations of Bainbridge farmers...(more)

Read about the EduCulture Project in the June 2009 Bainbridge Island Review Farming's Future is in their Hands

Whats New!

EduCulture Project Fall and Winter Programs

Teachers: Sign up now for fall, winter and spring farm-school projects and visits to the farm! For information on scheduling class visits and student projects at the farm, Contact Global Source, 206-780-5797.

Farm Hands WINTER 2010
After School Program for Grades 1-4
Suyematsu-Bentryn Farms
Register Today!


Visit Bainbridge Island Vineyards & Winery and mention you want to support The EduCulture Project. Proceeds from your purchase will benefit local farm-school programs based on Suyematsu-Bentryn Farms. We are grateful to Bainbridge Island Vineyards & Winery for their support!

Farm Hands

Join us for a fall afternoon full of learning, playing games and having fun while investigating and experiencing life on a working farm. Building on the interest in our farm-school programs and Farm Hands Summer Camp, the EduCulture Project is launching an afterschool program for elementary age children on Bainbridge Island’s most historic agricultural landscape. We are piloting these single session community based education programs this Fall, with the aim of offering more extensive afterschool programs this coming Winter and Spring.

Winter 2010
After-School Program

2009 Farm Hands Summer Camp

Summer Institute for K-12 Educators

This week long intensive professional learning experience will take place amidst the natural beauty and agricultural richness of one of the oldest, most continuously farmed, working landscapes in our region, which is being transformed into a center of learning of K-12 and community based education...(more)

Highlights from our Food, Farming, Culture and Education 2009 Summer Institute

Photos from the 2009 Summer Institute

Second Annual Food, Farming, Culture and Education Summer Institute
July 2008, Suyematsu/Bentryn Farms, Bainbridge Island

Read about our 2008 Summer Institute in the Bainbridge Review

First Annual Food, Farming, Culture and Education Institute
July 2007, Suyematsu/Bentryn Farms, Bainbridge Island, WA

Past Community Programs

Being a Locavore: Creating a Bainbridge Island Report Card, July 2009 Forum

Food, Farming, Culture & Education Dialogue
February 6 and 13, 2007, Bainbridge Island, WA

Highlights from Food, Farming, Culture & Education Dialogue
October 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA

Highlights from Food, Farming, Culture & Education Dialogue #2
December 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA

Resources

Suggested Resources: Grades K-12

Suggested Resources: General

Partners

Bainbridge Island Vineyards
Laughing Crow Farm
Butler Green Farms
Bainbridge Island Farms
Trust for Working Landscapes
Bainbridge Island School District Marshall Strawberry Project & Bainbridge Historical Society Sustainable Bainbridge
Antioch University Seattle
Clovis Foundation
Leiter Family Foundation
Healthier Kids Bainbridge

Suyematsu/Bentryn Farms, Bainbridge Island, WA

Find out more through photos and links to the farms!