The Importance of Farm Field Trips
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Farm field trips are a fantastic way to promote hands-on learning with students and local growers. Students venture out of the classroom, interact with nature, and have first-hand encounters with seasonal crops while meeting local farmers and producers in their community.
Northern High School, in Durham, NC, has built strong connections with the Hub Farm and Bull City Farm. These partnerships support agriculture, culinary education, and community engagement while enhancing the curriculum. In the curriculum, students have a comprehensive farm-to-table experience, teaching them the effort of maintaining a garden and working in a kitchen. During their animal science unit, students visit Bull City Farm, where they participate in guided tours to see cattle, chickens, and other farm animals. While learning about vegetable production, Hub Farm offers harvesting and planting projects that align with the curriculum.YouTube video featuring the farm field trips with Northern High School teachers, students, and local farmers.
Culinary students visit and volunteer at Hub Farm every month. This symbiotic relationship helps students understand where their food comes from and introduces them to crops they have never seen before. When culinary students see fresh produce in grocery stores, they can think, “I know several ways to prepare or even grow that.”
At Northern High School, the goal is to combine vocational training on the farm with agriculture education and culinary training in the kitchen. This approach wonderfully demonstrates the importance of farm field trips: encouraging learning, play, and creativity while nurturing students’ curiosity.
For more North Carolina farm to school stories, please visit our YouTube page at youtube.com/@NCSUFarmtoSchool.