Roots Farm Mission
Roots Farm Mission
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Roots Farm
Hands-on Learning at Roots
Roots Farm is a thriving agricultural space and an exciting outdoor classroom located on the edge of McDonogh’s campus. A 10-acre farm, it now boasts two barns for equipment and learning, a greenhouse, as well as 11 active beehives, a coop with 16 hens, and a turkey house with six Black Spanish Heritage turkeys.
Roots provides fresh produce for McDonogh’s dining service, food for the Maryland Food Bank, and hands-on educational opportunities for students from prekindergarten through twelfth grade. Additionally, Roots helps build a sense of community among McDonogh’s students, teachers, staff, parents, and alumni who eagerly tend to the chickens and share in the communal experience of planting and picking produce as they discover where food comes from.
The Roots Farm Store
10
chickens who help teach where food comes from
8,292
pounds of produce donated to charity organizations
2,582
student hours spent in
227+ classes
To me, community is when students and adults want to ‘come back and give back’ to the farm because they feel the immediate connection of being part of something big and meaningful.