Farmers in the Playground

Farmers in the Playgound, located in the schoolyards of several elementary schools in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada is a program that unites kids to their food! Along with food garden facilitators, school staff and volunteers, children build, plant and grow food gardens on their school grounds. Gardening is not complete without the link it has to our tummies, so for half of the 1 full-day per week program(runs approx.10 weeks) the students are in the dirt and the other half brings them to the kitchen preparing lunch for themselves and sometimes their entire school. Our motto is "Dirt Makes You Grow!" and this is true in our schools. The program ranges from soil exploration and stewardship/footprint on the planet to sprouting and raising chickens.