The Garden City Harvest Farm to School program encourages youth to explore connections between food, agriculture, science, and their everyday lives. We offer hands-on, experiential learning opportunities at the PEAS Farm, in school gardens, in Missoula County Public School classrooms, and at many of our other farms and gardens.

Spring and Fall
fARM Field Trips

*Photo by Mike Plautz*

Spring and fall we offer educational field trips at the PEAS Farm. MORE

Summer field trips

*Photo by Athena Photography*

Summer educational field trips take place at the PEAS Farm or one our our eight School Gardens. MORE.

Read about existing gardens and download Garden City Harvest’s school garden curriculum. MORE

Children entering grades first through fifth can join in one of our four-day summer camps offered throughout the summer at the PEAS Farm. MORE

Farmer in the Classroom

*Photo by Ali Solomon*

A food, farming, and nutrition-based program for MCPS District 1 2nd grade classrooms. The curriculum combines in-class and on-farm experiences. MORE

Looking for curriculum, kid-friendly recipes for the classroom (works at home too!), resources, or what’s happening outside of Missoula? We’ve got you covered. MORE

“My biggest challenge is finding ways and time to just slow down with kids. Our world is changing and moving so fast. . .

Ms. Bonne’t in the Franklin Garden, turning up the spring soil with her class.

“I don't want to hold them back from that, but I also want to teach them how to slow down and to see what's right in front of them, what's around them — to appreciate it and connect with it. But also just slowing down to be with themselves, to listen to themselves and to trust themselves. That's where the garden comes in really handy. You just can't help but slow down when you're out there.
“And if you take kids out starting in the fall, they see all the changes. It’s incremental and it's slow, but they see it. They see the details and they see the little tiny things that are changing that turn into the bigger, more obvious things. That really gets them to slow down and observe their environment and the details and connect with it. And then they see it as ‘this is my garden because I know it so well.’ You know? And, and then that expands out to when they go out into their life to seeing the natural world around them.”
- Frances Bonne’t, participating teacher, Franklin Elementary, speaking about her work in the garden