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Growing
Futures.

Donating raised organic garden beds and a twelve-week curriculum to schools — so the next generation learns what real food looks like before it reaches a plate.

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4Raised Beds, Pilot
80+Students Reached
12Week Curriculum
5+Schools by 2027

Growing Futures puts organic, hands-on agriculture back into schoolyards. We design, build, and donate raised beds — then walk students through a full semester of soil, seed, and harvest.

The pilot: Ramapo High School

In spring 2026 we broke ground on our pilot program at Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Four cedar raised beds, a dedicated garden classroom, and more than eighty students across biology, environmental science, and health electives — plus a student-led Garden Club that meets weekly after school.

Our curriculum partner is Urban Abundance Florida (@urbanabundancefl), a team with a decade of experience building school and community food forests. They help us translate the what-we-grow into a living, teachable semester.

What's in the beds

Beds are planted seasonally with resilient, high-yield, high-nutrient crops that students can see, smell, taste, and harvest inside a single term:

Tomatoes
Peppers
Lettuces
Herbs
Strawberries
Snap Peas
Carrots
Sunflowers

The 12-Week Curriculum

Phase 01 · Weeks 1–4

Soil & Seeds

The living groundwork.

  • What healthy soil actually is
  • Composting & the microbiome
  • Seed selection & starting
  • Bed design & companion planting
Phase 02 · Weeks 5–9

Tending

Daily care, weekly observation.

  • Watering, mulching, pollinators
  • Plant physiology & growth logs
  • Pest management — organic-only
  • Weather, season, adaptation
Phase 03 · Weeks 10–12

Harvest & Kitchen

From bed to table to community.

  • Harvesting at peak nutrition
  • Seed saving for next season
  • Simple whole-food cooking labs
  • Harvest share with the community

Why it matters

The average American teenager can name hundreds of brand logos and almost no vegetables by sight. Growing food — actually growing it, week by week — changes a young person's relationship with their body and their food forever. That is the foundation of health.

Three-Phase Expansion

Spring 2026

One School

Pilot fully operational at Ramapo High — beds, curriculum, Garden Club, harvest share. Documented end-to-end to become the program template.

Fall 2026

Two Schools

Expand to a second NJ school, adapting the curriculum to a different seasonal window and a different student community.

2027 +

Five+ Statewide

Scale to five or more schools across the state, with trained teacher leads and a published open-source curriculum.

“Growing food grows character.” — Morgan Hoffmann Foundation
Nominate a school

Bring a garden to your school.

Principals, teachers, parents, and students — anyone with a vision for a garden at a school. Tell us about the community and how a raised bed program would land there. We’ll follow up within two weeks.

Step 1 · About you
Step 2 · About the school
Step 3 · The site & the vision

Prefer to write directly? Email morgan@morganhoffmann.org — we welcome either.

Put a bed in a school.

Sponsor a raised bed for a school, nominate a school in your community, or volunteer a build day. Every school starts with one garden.

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