Education at Reunity

Our Aim
The premises of the Education Program at Reunity Resources is to illuminate and strengthen our own intimate relationship to food, land, and self. This creates the fertile landscape for sustainable and resilient, community building that can meet many of the challenges we will face in the 21st century while thinking about how our actions will affect "the next seven generations". 

Activities
The Education program is grounded in creating meaningful and positive experiences on the land that sustains us. These experiences include feeling the heat give off by bacteria in our high temperature static aerated compost piles, getting to know the red wiggler worms that turn compost into a fungal dominant and nutrient available additive for soil building and plant growth, observing sustainable agriculture in action by taking soil samples of desertified soils inoculated with compost tea, to pressing apples into cider and returning the food waste back to the same systems used to regenerate more healthy food.

Our Impact 
Building on the past work of Reunity and the education foundation created from its beginnings, we provide FREE access to Farm to School Education programs along with fully subsidized transportation in our partnership with Santa Fe Public schools. In 2023, we served over 20 classrooms and over 400 students in 2023. Now, in 2024, our education program is set to serve over 1500 students in 34 classrooms from pre-k through college students. The mission to provide access, build community, and connect our youth to the land they live on, while doing so thoughtfully to serve the next generations, continues to act as the north star of our work.

Reunity is currently working with a significant Federal Farm to School Grant that enables us to build our programs to align with core curriculum of New Mexico Schools while connecting kids, schools, and staff to regional farms with sustainable models of agriculture. Lastly, we are creating collaborations with other organizations involved in schools such as Communities in Schools, Cooking with Kids, Global Warming Express, and CAVU's Climate Innovation Challenge.

Are you interested in a field trip? 
Most of our experiences begin with a conversation with interested schools, administrators, and classroom teachers regarding which students, ages, classrooms, and curriculums we aim to integrate with our farm visits. Experiences range from a tour of our “worm house” to a taste of the farm tour. We’ll align our visit with what you’re studying in class: a lesson and experience on soil health, the cycle of an apple (and pressing apples into cider), and measuring water content in various soils from a pinon juniper desertscape to our soils regenerated with our various composts. 

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Contact: Marc - Education Coordinator 
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Education Across the Farm
While we aim to do our best work in each of the intertwined programs we run, we are firm believers in collective, community movements. To truly have an impact on the big issues of hunger and climate change, it takes all of us. This idea forms the basis of our commitment to education. Whether we are connecting on the farm with community college students, preschoolers, retirees or young professionals, everyone has a role to play. Our educational programming spans from our Farm Camp to paid mentorships, from drop-in tours to hands-on workshops. 

Our Core Concepts
This farm program is designed to create hands-on, experiential, and embodied learning experiences that energize, excite, and deepen learning. We collaborate with teachers to design classroom visits and field work on the farm that includes principles and content in the water cycle, soil composition, restoration, and health, environment and sustainability, physical and geological sciences, land history, creative writing and expression - just to name a few! By pairing classroom visits with farm field trips, we answer the ‘why does this matter in real life’ questions in practical ways.