Temple’s Urban Farm in Texas educates students on farming and self-esteem
Students grow and sell pea or sunflower microgreens to grow in entrepreneurial skills. They sell at Treno Pizza and Cha Community in Temple as well as fairs, farmer’s markets.
By Ally Kadlubar
CWTX
Oct. 25, 2022
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Students at Cultivate Academy, a full-time learning environment for students of all ages in Temple, now spend a few days a week at a seven-acre farm, learning entrepreneurial, agricultural, engineering and STEM skills.
“Cultivate Academy has been established just this year,” Doree Collins, Owner and Executive Director of Cultivate Academy, said. “We’re super excited. Our group is called the ‘Pioneers.’ This is our pilot year to actually create an academy system or process where the kids come in every day like they would in public school or anywhere else, and they spend a day together.”
Students spend three days a week learning at Cultivate Events and Enrichment Center, and, the other two, they spend connecting with nature at the Unincluded Club Urban Farm.
“The Unincluded Club Urban Farm, where we really do focus on the urban AG aspect of the Academy,” Collins said.
