Education Partnerships & Networks

Shelburne Farms expands the reach of our programs by working in partnership with organizations and agencies locally and around the world.  This leverages our impact, advances our understanding of program effectiveness, and builds relationships that cultivate a culture of sustainability.

• Farm-Based Education Network Shelburne Farms is the backbone organization to this free, member network established to strengthen and support the work of educators and administrators providing public access to their productive working farms.
   
• Northeast Climate Change Education Collaborative A network of organizations making systems-level change in educator professional learning; early childhood education; middle and high school education; connected learning ecosystems; youth climate action; and climate justice.
   
• Vermont Farm to School Network This network provides statewide leadership, coordination, and advocacy to advance new and existing Farm to School efforts in Vermont classrooms, cafeterias and communities.
   
• PLACE (Place-based Landscape Analysis and Community Education) This program offers local residents a forum for exploring and understanding the natural and cultural history of their town landscape, through an integrated series of presentations, field trips, workshops, and visioning forums.
  • University of Vermont
• Vermont FEED (Food Education Every Day) cultivates links between school classrooms, cafeterias, communities, and local farms to raise awareness about healthy food, the role of Vermont farms and farmers, and good nutrition, with an end-goal of rebuilding healthy food systems.
  • NOFA-VT
• Forest for Every Classroom An award-winning professional development program for K-12 teachers of all disciplines based on principles of place-based education and education for sustainability.
  • Stewardship Institute
  • Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
  • Green Mountain National Forest
  • Northeast Office of the National Wildlife Federation
• Champlain Basin Education Initiative  A consortium of environmental and place-based education groups throughout the Lake Champlain Basin that holds workshops on teaching about the Lake Champlain Basin for K-12 educators and interested citizens.
  • Lake Champlain Basin Program
  • ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
  • Our Curriculum Matters
  • Lake Champlain Committee
  • UVM Watershed Alliance, Lake Champlain Sea Grant
  • Vermont Project WET
• A Park for Every Classroom Created in 2011 to build collaborations among National Park Service staff, local community partners, and teachers to engage students in place-based learning that promotes stewardship.
  • Stewardship Institute
  • Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
  • National Park Service (Northeast Regional Office)

Education Partners

• 4-H As part of this federal USDA Program, we host and support a 4-H Club at the Farm, "Shelburne Explorers," for ages 8-17.
• Ayiti Konse Vet We partner with Ayiti Konse Vet (Haiti Green) to exchange education and agricultural practices between Haiti and Vermont educators and agronomists. Since 2008 we have partnered to host learning exchanges. 
• Burlington School District We collaborate to offer learning experiences for PreK-12 students, including Burlington City & Lake Semester, an immersive program at Burlington High School. 
• Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) We are proud to partner with CELF on transforming education with a lens of sustainability.  We have collaborated on professional learning programs for educators since 2007 and most recently on their Clinton Global Initiative Project to integrate Education for Sustainability and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) into New York City Schools.  
• King Street Youth Center We have partnered with King Street for nearly 20 years to offer farm and nature programming to underserved children in Burlington, VT.
• Outreach for Earth Stewardship (OFES) We collaborate with this onsite partner to offer public and youth programming related to wildlife, especially birds of prey. 
• National Farm to School Vermont FEED, one of our partnership organizations, is the Northeast Regional Lead for Vermont Farm to School.
• The Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes A longtime partner in Education for Sustainability efforts in Burlington.
• UVM Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education  We collaborate to offer professional learning opportunities for educators in Education for Sustainability.
• For more of our national and international education partners, visit our Sustainable Schools Project.