Urban Sprouts uses garden-based education to:
- Improve students' learning in science and their ecoliteracy (environmental awareness and responsibility)
- Improve students' nutrition and physical fitness
- Promote youth development and community involvement in urban schools.
- Help schools, students and families improve access to healthy and sustainable food through school food and the larger food system.
History
Urban Sprouts grew out of a doctoral thesis project conducted at Luther Burbank Middle School during the 2003-04 school year. At the end of the study, teachers asked the research team to stay on and help make the school garden a sustained program at the core of the school's curriculum. In our first year, 100 youth worked in the school garden, and we have since expanded to support school garden programs at two middle schools and two high schools. Since 2003, over 2,400 youth have benefited from hands-on garden learning by growing, harvesting and eating their own vegetables.
Mission Statement
Urban Sprouts is a school garden program that serves low-income youth from San Francisco's under-served neighborhoods. Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare and eat vegetables from the school garden, in order to help youth become more engaged in school, learn to eat better and exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other.
The Details
(37.777 ,-122.424 )
- Address 451 Hayes St.San Francisco, CA 94102
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Contact
- Adriani Leon
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Phone
- 415-287-0722
- Website
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Interest Area
- Children & Youth, Education & Literacy, Environment, Health & Medicine
Average Review 
1 reviews
1 reviewsWould you recommend Urban Sprouts?
by t l.
(December 30, 2011)
I am new to this organization and have signed up for an upcoming event. Very excited to be able to help and the event sounds fun. However, right from the start, the organization seems a little disorganized. Maybe they don't have enough help or there were too many responses to this event, but being new to this organization, this unorganized and late responses to inquiries does not make me want to be a part of it or recommend them to others. And information given from them wasn't even correct. How can you expect those new to the organization to have faith in you when you don't seem to be able to get your act together. Hopefully there aren't more issues but too bad for this unpleasant experience so far.
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