Donate- We are currently scheduling field trips for the fall program. We will be hosting visits to the GRuB farm from September 15 through mid-October. Contact our Education Program Coordinator to schedule a visit for your group!
- Field Trips at the GRuB Farm
Visit the Farm!
School groups as well as after school programs, religious organizations, neighborhood clubs, and other groups of youth are welcome to schedule a visit the GRuB Farm. Visitors of all ages will take a tour, participating in inquiry based investigations of the plants, animals, and earth at our productive 3 acre farm in West Olympia. Visiting students help with farm chores such as gathering eggs from our flock of laying hens, transplanting young broccoli into the field, or carefully harvesting baby greens for the Thurston County Food Bank. Youth are encouraged to use all five of their senses to make observations about how plants grow and how we grow the food that sustains us.Make Connections!
By selecting one of our field trip options, you can choose the GRuB experience that correlates with your classroom curriculum or best meets the needs of your group. For groups of 10 to 50+ students, we offer a Farm Tour & Service Learning field trip that can range in length form 1.5 – 3 hours. For groups smaller than twenty students, we also offer the following three options: The Food System, Soil and Compost, and Plant Life Cycles. We encourage you to visit the farm multiple times during the season and create your own program. For example, your group could start with a soil-themed visit, return to learn about plant life cycles, and conclude with service learning, all while noticing the exciting changes on a busy farm throughout the season. For detailed field trip information, please contact Carlin, the Education Program Coordinator.
- Special Partnerships
- GRuB partners with two different groups of special needs students at Marshall Middle School and Reeves Middle School to offer weekly field trips to the GRuB Farm throughout the spring and fall. These students learn about food justice, plant biology, soil science, native plants, and sustainable agricultural practices while helping us grow salad mix for the food bank. We congratulate these students on a successful spring and look forward to seeing them back out here in the fall!
- Throughout the past winter and spring, GRuB partnered with science classes at Komachin Middle School in the North Thurston School District to grow food for the food bank in their school garden. Students developed and are implementing a planting plan that emphasizes winter food production for the Food Bank's slowest months of donations. We welcome this new partner to the fight against hunger in Thurston County!
- For more information about GRuB's Cultivating Youth program, send a message to Carlin Briner through our contact form, or call (360) 753-2665.