The mission of the Nestucca School Garden is to engage students with the ecological and biodiverse natural world, to enhance their wellbeing and learning experience through hands on environmental stewardship and leadership in sustainability.
The Carrot Academy is an initiative to offer alternative classroom like experiences to youth at our LOVE Building facility. A traditional Academy event allows children to go out into the garden and work with plants, weed and harvest, compost and plant. They then take some of their bounty into the kitchen, prepare their meal and sit down and talk about a topic related to their self sufficiency, self esteem and sustainable food systems. Then they wash up and put their dishes away.
