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Causes: Children & Youth, Environment, Food, Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Garden Clubs, Youth Development - Agricultural
Mission: The sauvie island center provides local children with unique experiences on a working farm, helping them to make a connection between the food they eat, farming and the land.
Programs: The sauvie island center increases food, farm and environmental literacy in the community by providing hands-on educational field trips for elementary school children. The trips take place on the sauvie island organics farm and on the grounds of the 120 acre howell territorial park, managed by metro. In 2017 the sauvie island center provided 89 classroom field trips. 60% of our field trips in 2017 served title i (high poverty) schools.