Join the Food Revolution

 
 
 
Burnham's Field Gardeners

Connecting people and communities through food access

We lead programs that empower low- to moderate- income households, kids, seniors, and refugee and immigrant families to grow their own fresh, culturally meaningful food in backyards, community gardens, container gardens, low-income housing neighborhoods, and more.

CULTIVATING A NEW GENERATION OF ENGAGED EATERS

 

Elementary School

Our award-winning school garden program for Kindergarten through 5th Grade gets students out of the classroom and into the dirt growing their own food through our trademarked Salad Days™ and Fall Harvest Days™ Programs

Middle School

Our unique school-grown corn and wheat programs, as well as school garden soil health units, tap into science and social studies curricula while giving middle school students the chance to grow and pop their own corn and plant and harvest wheat that they thresh, winnow, mill and make bread with

Bring Us to Your School

Backyard Growers is based in Gloucester, MA, but works with schools and districts across New England through our Share The Harvest Program. To date, over 15,000 students outside of Gloucester have found a connection to growing their own healthy food through our school garden program models

together we POWER CAPE ANN’S VEGGIE GARDENS

Explore what we achieved together during the 2023 growing season and beyond, empowering kids, seniors, and families to grow their own fresh food.

Lend Your Green or your green Thumb

Join our food revolution by volunteering, mentoring, or making a donation. Volunteers are essential to our work and we could not maximize our impact in the community without the support of these generous hands in the dirt and our donors.

Backyard Growers in Action

91%

of community gardeners report their families eat more vegetables as a result of their gardens

400+

raised garden beds built

31

private and public schools and districts have implemented our school program model

20,000+

Massachusetts students are learning through Backyard Growers as of 2020

7,500

servings of fresh food in Gloucester schools annually

our funding partners