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FREE FOOD WASTE DROP-OFF
- Drop off household food waste for free at the Island Grown Farm, Chappy ferry dock, and select Island transfer stations. Edgartown, Chilmark, and West Tisbury are currently accepting food waste drop off for free. The service is $2 for a five-gallon bucket at the remaining transfer stations.
- Free countertop buckets are available at all Island waste facilities and the Island Grown office.
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MOBILE MARKET
- Our Mobile Market will be on the road June through October delivering farm-fresh produce and eggs.
- Place your online order 24 hours in advance at mobilemarketorders.square.site.
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Curriculum Toolkit
Over the years, we have honed in on priority curricular units for every grade level, preschool through 12th grade, that build on each other and provide a meaningful food education for the students we work with.
This Toolkit is the compilation of these units, along with their related teaching standards and sequence. We are constantly adding to this site, so please check in again soon for updates.

We designed this curriculum framework to help our students grasp the following key concepts by the time they graduate from High School:

Feel confident in making healthy food choices

Appreciate the farming profession

Know that everyone can grow food

Understand the connection between healthy soil, healthy plants and healthy people

Recognize a regenerative, local food system is inclusive and promotes a healthy ecosystem.

Find the Seed

OBJECTIVE Students will explore different plants to find the seeds. They will begin to identify the different parts of the plant, and come up with questions about the origins of seeds. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Where do seeds come from? MATERIALS NEEDED Plant parts for students to study: garlic, corn, sunflower, Swiss chard/ kale/lettuce, tomato, pepper, chives/herbs, […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Seeds

Wet Felting Craft

OBJECTIVE Students will wet felt wool Students will process fiber ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Why do sheep live on farms? What can be made from wool? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Directions: FOLLOW UP & EXTENSIONS

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms

Farm Vocabulary

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to match the farm animals, tools, or machines to its description ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are farms for? What are the jobs on a farm? Why do animals live on farms? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction:We have been talking a lot about farms, and now I think we are ready to start […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms

Machines and Animals on the Farm

OBJECTIVE Students will identify the various jobs on a farm. Students will make the connection between jobs that animals do, and jobs that machines do. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are the jobs on a farm? What are farm for? MATERIALS NEEDED Farm Animal note cards, Farm Machine note cards, Farm Jobs worksheet PROCEDURE Introduction:Why do animals […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms

Farm Animal Introduction

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to identify different farm animals and describe their characteristics. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What types of animals live on farms? What do farm animals do? MATERIALS NEEDED Farm Animal Worksheet PROCEDURE Introduction:In circle: Review some facts that students know about farms from the KWL sheet. Ask the students to name as many […]

Grade levels Prek-2

Core curriculum subjects Science

Island Grown Schools topics Farms