Programs
City Sprouts offers workshops and classes, online learning tools for educators, educational programming, and more to educate the community about gardening and healthy lifestyle choices. Click on our programs below for more details!
Programs
City Sprouts offers workshops and classes, online learning tools for educators, educational programming, and more to educate the community about gardening and healthy lifestyle choices. Click on our programs below for more details!
growing gardeners workshops
The Growing Gardeners Workshop Series is a collaboration between City Sprouts and The Big Garden. We work together to offer four seasons of hands-on workshops that feature skills and techniques for every gardener and urban farmer: growing, cooking, preserving and eating healthy local food. All workshops are free and open to all ages.
Our workshops are broken up into three main tracks: Urban Ag School, Herbal Medicine Cabinet, and Culinary Workshops. We also have smaller workshops attached to various community events that we have throughout the year. Check out all of our workshop offerings on our Growing Gardeners website.
We love having guest teachers from our community lead workshops! Are you knowledgable about a subject that you'd like to share in a workshop? Reach out to our Education Manager and explain what skills you'd like to share.
growing gardeners workshops
The Growing Gardeners Workshop Series is a collaboration between City Sprouts and The Big Garden. We work together to offer four seasons of hands-on workshops that feature skills and techniques for every gardener and urban farmer: growing, cooking, preserving and eating healthy local food. All workshops are free and open to all ages.
Our workshops are broken up into three main tracks: Urban Ag School, Herbal Medicine Cabinet, and Culinary Workshops. We also have smaller workshops attached to various community events that we have throughout the year. Check out all of our workshop offerings on our Growing Gardeners website.
We love having guest teachers from our community lead workshops! Are you knowledgable about a subject that you'd like to share in a workshop? Reach out to our Education Manager and explain what skills you'd like to share.
Truck farm Omaha
Truck Farm Omaha (TFO) is a low-cost mobile program that brings the farm to your group or school through a variety of garden and farm-themed educational lessons. The program is dedicated to teaching Omaha-area residents (PK - adult) about healthy eating, environmental sustainability, and the benefits of growing one’s own food. Choose from a variety of topics including learning about chickens, worms, bees, and gardening. Before visiting, we will work with you to adapt the session to suit your needs.
Due to the hands-on nature of our sessions, Truck Farm is best suited for groups or classes that include no more than 30 students at one time, although consecutive sessions can be arranged. Contact our Education Programs Manager Kaylee (kaylee@omahasprouts.org) with questions and inquiries!
**We're fully booked through the summer! More availability coming Fall 2023.**
When you schedule Truck Farm Omaha to visit your school or community group, we offer any of the following lesson plans, or we can provide a combination of lessons:
Chickens
Chickens are an increasingly popular and beneficial part of urban agriculture. In this lesson, you will learn where eggs come from, the basics of backyard chicken keeping, and get to spend time with the City Sprouts chickens!
Cooking + Preserving
After a successful growing season, you have to know what to do with all your garden goodies! In this visit, you get to choose to make either a fresh recipe or a preserved food like pickles and jam from scratch. We might even use fresh garden produce if available for an extra special treat! (Available all year)
Worms
Expand your recycling efforts by turning kitchen scraps into a valuable resource for your garden! In this lesson on vermiculture and composting, we bring live worms hard at work composting in our traveling worm compost bin! You will also get to see and touch the live red wiggler worms! (Available all year)
Gardening
Do you want to start or improve your group's garden, but don't know where to start? We can help! In this lesson, we will provide some plants, trellises, containers, and other garden supplies for your unique space as we guide you through everything you need to grow a successful garden. (Available April-June)
Bees
Bees are important pollinators and have become increasingly threatened. In this lesson, we teach the importance of bees and basic beekeeping. (Available June-July)
Truck Farm Inquiries
Interested in booking Truck Farm Omaha for your group? Fill out the initial inquiry form here, or contact City Sprouts Education Manager Kaylee Reynolds
(kaylee@omahasprouts.org) with any questions.
Filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette came across Truck Farm while traveling across the country to shoot Growing Cities, their documentary film about urban agriculture. The concept of the giant, mobile container garden was started in Brooklyn, NY and is a fun way to educate groups on the go. From first sight, they knew they wanted to start a Truck Farm in their hometown of Omaha, NE.
Truck Farm was eventually inherited by City Sprouts from Growing Cities in 2015, and in 2017 the yellow 1970's Chevy truck was upgraded for a newer Toyota Tundra that we still use today. While we don't use the bed of our truck as a garden bed anymore, we still keep the spirit of Truck Farm alive with our variety of mobile-friendly lesson plans.
Whole Cities Foundation generously supported Truck Farm with a $5,000 grant, which went towards the purchase of our new truck.
The Whole Cities Foundation's mission is to improve individual and community health through collaborative partnerships, education, and broader access to nutritious food in the communities we serve.
The Omaha community generously supported Truck Farm by coming together to raise nearly $8,000 during Omaha Gives 2017, which went towards the purchase of our new truck.
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