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The Youth Food & Farm Forum engages youth in education and participation of sustainable farming. The event featured interactive sessions including vegan cooking, equity 101, seed saving, hog butchering, and holistic health through food. The event was attended by an extremely diverse group of youth, ages 13-23, from across Alabama. Read more...
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Welcome to Fresh Air Family Field Trips! We have converted our curriculum to design-thinking to help you meet and exceed your academic goals. We also have a special needs expert on our staff with lesson plans for a wide variety of needs. Our staff is happy to provide a field trip experience that is engaging, sometimes gross, and always educational. Read more...
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Through Farm Club, students become stewards of their school’s Teaching Farm as they take ownership of planting, growing, harvesting, and cooking the fresh produce they grow. STEM-based projects are incorporated to spotlight the connection between sustainable farming practices and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Read more...
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Bring your students to experience hands-on learning and connect with nature through our free Discovery Field Trips at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. All field trips extend the life science concepts that you teach in your classroom. Curriculum based, they correlate with the Alabama State Course of Study and Alabama College and Career Ready Standards and are aligned with the National Science Read more...
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Our popular summer camps are designed to promote your child’s creativity and the joy of discovery through fun learning experiences in the unmatched natural setting of Birmingham Botanical Gardens! Each camp will include daily explorations of the Gardens and plants to take home and grow. Read more...
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BBG’s plant conservation programs are multifaceted, with numerous opportunities for engaging the public and citizen volunteers. Aspects of our plant conservation programs, all of which are presented in an educational context for our volunteers, include: Field Work: population monitoring, seed and cutting collection, habitat management, invasive plant eradication; Greenhouse Work: propagation, potting, weeding, watering; Collections Work: a full range of Read more...
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Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens offers a variety of internship opportunities to college and high school students throughout the year. The purpose is to expose young people to the possibilities of rewarding professional careers in public gardens. Read more...
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the Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens Junior Board is a group of dedicated junior patrons who seek to increase awareness and involvement among their peers. They aim to increase diversity here at the Gardens, and host events and classes to achieve their goals and to help us fulfill our mission. Read more...
