A gift your principal can say yes to in one meeting.
Bring a classroom grow lab to a child you love. Sponsor one, gift it to their teacher, or hand your principal a plan they can approve on the spot. We make every step easy.
Bring a classroom grow lab to a child you love. Sponsor one, gift it to their teacher, or hand your principal a plan they can approve on the spot. We make every step easy.
Oliver walks you through what a BYFP grow lab brings to your classroom.
Students plant their first tray of kale and discover how a tiny seed holds a whole plant.
Students plant arugula and start exploring where their food comes from, and what it does for their bodies.
Students plant radish and trace their food back to its source, thinking in systems.
Out come the scissors. Students harvest, taste and reflect on the whole journey together.
Delivered to your door and simple to set up, with a step-by-step guide and video to walk you through it.
A short walkthrough is all it takes. No growing experience needed.
Online scaffolding and standards-aligned lessons we build, ready to teach.
Stuck on anything? Call us. A real person picks up.
One tidy rack. No outdoor space, no plumbing, fits any classroom.
A four-week arc, a few minutes of care a day, a harvest they can eat.
97% of our students have never grown a vegetable before. By harvest day they are 33% more willing to try one, and 92% want to grow something at home.
A new crop every week, so there is always something just sprouting and something almost ready.
Care jobs rotate through the class. Every child gets a turn being the one the plants are counting on.
Families come in to see the lab and taste the harvest. Invitations come in the languages your families speak.
Since 2022, our team has run the program in 16 Boston schools.
Massachusetts principals are evaluated on students’ engagement and sense of belonging, and on how well they bring families in. Their schools are also held accountable for attendance. This gift comes with evidence for each.
It also covers state science and health standards, so teachers keep their instructional time.
A before-and-after summary of how connected students feel to classmates and school.
Family Harvest Night comes with sign-ins and a short family survey your principal can report.
Less than 30 minutes of prep, no gardening background, and no outside visitors to schedule.
A setup video and phone support whenever a teacher needs it.
Massachusetts school committees formally accept gifts to schools, and many districts require a vote for anything over $100. We make that step easy.
Ready for your principal to send up for acceptance.
Made out to your parent group, your Friends-of nonprofit or the school, whichever your treasurer prefers.
Kids taste plain kale, arugula and radish grown in the room. Families get the crop list ahead of time, the school nurse gets a one-page checklist, and every harvest starts with soap-and-water handwashing.
This is not a box of random activities. Every session maps to age-appropriate learning outcomes, built into the Massachusetts STE (2016) and Health & PE (2023) frameworks and the CASEL competencies.
A complete grow lab is $1,000, and it covers a full program cycle for up to 84 students, about $12 each. Three or four classrooms can share one, and larger schools can add a second lab.
The rack is yours to keep. To grow again, reload seeds and soil for about $4 per student — from us or on your own.
What’s in the boxThey now have knowledge of how food is grown, transported and all the resources needed to produce a single dinner.
Most of all, they loved to eat the microgreens. I wish we had more of these experiences for more students.
Oliver and his team bring real urban-farming expertise to our faculty and students, growing produce from seed right in our STEM classroom.
There’s nothing like getting your hands dirty, nurturing a young plant, and then getting to eat it.
We think that’s worth fixing, not with a worksheet, but with a tray of seeds on their own desk. Boston Youth Farm Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We started by teaching in Boston classrooms ourselves, and still do, in a small number of schools each term. What we learned there is what makes the grow lab work in your hands.
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