Growing Curiosity with Farm to ECE at Village Group Home Daycare
At Village Group Home Daycare, we believe that some of the best learning happens outdoors. One of our favorite activities is spending time in our garden, where children discover how plants grow and why gardens are so important.
Growing Together: The 2026 Alabama Farm to ECE Summit
With support from the CDC-funded Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program, led by Nemours Children’s Health, in partnership with the Association of State Public Health Nutritionists, Alabama Healthy Kids, Healthy Future hosted the first Alabama Farm to ECE Summit.
A Day of Planting, Learning, and Growing Together – Gainesville Head Start
With April being National Garden Month, there is no better time to get children outside, let them explore, and show them where food really comes from. Not a store, but the ground, through care, patience, and purpose.
Growing Little Hands and Big Futures in Greene County
On Monday, March 30, 2026, Boots on the Farm had the pleasure of visiting Greene County Head Start, where we worked alongside Pre K students, ages 4, to plant raised bed gardens as part of our Farm to ECE efforts.
Taste of the Farm: Livingston Early Head Start Center
This week, through Farm to ECE, I had the opportunity to bring Taste of the Farm to the Livingston
Early Head Start Center in Livingston, Alabama. Serving children ages birth to three, this visit was a powerful reminder that agricultural education begins earlier than many people realize.
December in the Early Childhood Program: Learning From a Resting Garden
December invites a gentle shift in the rhythm of early childhood classrooms. The air becomes cooler, the daylight fades earlier, and many outdoor gardens begin their winter rest. Yet even as the soil quiets, children’s natural curiosity remains wide awake. Farm to Early Care and Education (Farm to ECE) continues during the winter months, it simply takes on a new, more reflective form.
Harvesting Thankfulness in the Classroom Garden
In our Farm-to-ECE work, we often focus on planting and harvesting, but this month I’d like to pause and celebrate thankfulness in the garden. Even with our youngest learners, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, the lesson of gratitude can be taught through simple experiences: touching soil, watering a plant, or feeding a worm to the compost pile.
Garden to Classroom: Learning Through Harvest
In early childhood classrooms, September is a month filled with wonder. Gardens that children planted in spring or early summer are now bursting with produce, colors, and textures that spark curiosity. For young learners, this is the moment when they see that their care such as watering, weeding, and observing truly makes a difference.
Classroom to Garden: Bringing August’s Harvest Indoors
August gardens are awash in color: deep reds of tomatoes, golden kernels of corn, and the dark green of okra pods. In the ECE classroom, we can harness that bounty to spark curiosity, fine-motor skills, and early science exploration.
🍓June Blog: Things To Do with Early Learners in the Classroom
If you can’t take your early learners out to the farm or market, why not bring the farm experience into the classroom? Here are some great ways to introduce farm-to-table lessons this June.
