We advance our mission through accessible, best practice programs taught in a working urban agricultural environment to achieve the following goals:
Introduce children to a rich, hands-on experience that improves bio-science education
Increase student knowledge of and appreciation for proper nutrition, and encourage children and their families to adopt healthy and sustainable urban agriculture practices
Lead more students to potential careers in bio-science to meet the pressing needs to fill emerging jobs in STEM and agriculture
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What makes GHV distinctive!
The Venture is built on a collaboration that includes Saint Louis University, Washington University, Harris-Stowe State University, St. Louis Community College, the University of Missouri St. Louis, Bio STL, and four elementary schools forming a cohesive Urban Education Alliance.
Kids from Alliance schools will learn to plant, harvest, and cook healthy food in a real-world production facility, one that supplies produce for school-lunches to children in need.
Working with St. Louis University’s Nutrition and Dietetics, students learn to plant, harvest, and cook healthy food. They will also learn from our aquaponics greenhouse, which is part of the Venture’s mission to supply produce to children in need through school lunch programs.
Students, working alongside scientists, plant and maintain native flowers along the interstate-highway embankment to revitalize declining pollinator populations that are essential for large-scale agriculture.
Children from diverse backgrounds learn together, engaging their families and schools, adding strength and vitality to the web of urban life.
Urban populations are expected to explode by mid-century, and cities like St. Louis will need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by food transportation by producing food nearer to their urban cores.
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