Connecting students in need to gardening for lifelong transformation.

Deep Roots is a multi-faceted program that combines outdoor learning, service, gardening and recreation to promote positive social-emotional learning outcomes for students with limited access to nature.

The Deep Roots Program is a weekly gardening course at Herff Farm offered on a semester-by-semester basis to students with limited access to nature. Students design, build and plant beds for a market garden. They create products from the plants that they grow to sell at the Farmer’s Market at the Cibolo.

Program Areas Include:

• Gardening: designing, building, planting and harvesting a garden
• Sustainability: learning about the environment and ecosystem as a whole, and the role that we all play in it
• Entrepreneurship: selling products at the Farmer’s Market at the Cibolo
• Outdoor Recreation: enjoying opportunities to explore the trails, go fishing, and more

Click here or contact us at [email protected] or call (830) 249-4616 to learn more.