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Healthy Communities Coalition

Since 2010, Healthy Communities Coalition has strategically worked towards improving our area’s food system. We began developing a food hub by connecting local, state, and federal agencies, tribal groups, farmers, businesses, and community volunteers around the goal of creating an affordable, accessible and fair food system that bolsters our local agriculture economy, provides for residents in need, builds demand for locally grown foods, and creates a sustainable source of healthy food.

Discovery Garden

Discovery Garden at the Durango Discovery Museum

Enhancing the learning experience at the “Pow” by growing a science-based garden space.

Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard & Community Garden

 The Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard provides students on the Stonehurst Campus with opportunities to explore the natural world using scientific inquiry and to connect academics with knowledge about nurturing the land, growing healthy food, and supporting where they can explore the science of soil, the food cycle, and their place in the web of life.

Purple Asparagus

 Purple Asparagus is a Chicago based non-profit that educates children, families and the community about eating that's good for the body and the planet.

Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve

A pristine wooded canyon is protected in this 290-acre parkland near Merritt College in Oakland.

The park includes a self-guided trail focusing on the local Indian uses of plants. A brochure is available at the trailhead.

A teachers' trail guide is available online: http://www.ebparks.org/parks/leona#guide and provides additional context, history and tips for educators.

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Coyote Hills Visitor Center contains educational displays and exhibits as well as the Possum's Pocket Nature Store. The exhibits portray the Ohlone way of life, and include a tule boat constructed by park staff and volunteers using Native American methods. Other exhibits cover the park’s natural history and wildlife.

The Coyote Hills Visitor Center is open 10am to 4pm, Wednesday through Sunday

Garin Barn Visitor Center

The Garin Barn Visitor Center is open weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. It is designed to aide in interpretive programs and for the enjoyment of the casual visitor. The Visitor Center displays artifacts from the ranching and farming history of the Hayward area. There is a blacksmith shop, a tool shop and several ranching-related displays to explore. An interesting collection of antique farm machinery outside the barn augments the display.

Ardenwood Historic Farm

The East Bay Regional Park District in California has operated Ardenwood Historic Farm since 1985. The farm still grows the same kind of produce that was grown in the region in the last 100 years, utilizing agricultural practices from the 1870s to the present, demonstrating the transition from horse-powered to horsepower farming. The interpretive staff and volunteers, attired in Victorian clothing, guide guests through the Victorian house, demonstrate farm chores, and explain what life was like in the early 1900s.

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