What Is a School Farm? Results of a Scoping Review

Sammy A. Blair, Gabrielle Edwards, Katharine Yu, Eduardo Jovel, Lisa Jordan Powell, Kerry Renwick and Annalijn I. Conklin ()
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Sammy A. Blair: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Gabrielle Edwards: Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Katharine Yu: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Eduardo Jovel: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Lisa Jordan Powell: Center for Human and Environmental Sustainability, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA 24595, USA
Kerry Renwick: Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Annalijn I. Conklin: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: As school farms become more prominent programs to teach food education, research is needed to support school farms’ implementation and sustainability. This scoping review included 94 articles on school farms from three bibliometric databases covering broad international literature. Vocational agricultural training, animal husbandry, and crop production were common characteristics of school farms across 103 years of publications. Themes of sustainability, healthy eating, and food systems were more prominent in recent literature. Peer-reviewed studies (1985–2019) provided some empirical research showing school farms’ impact on students. This review discusses school farms’ structures and objectives as promising food education and production programming.

Keywords: school farm; food education; food access; school food; agricultural education; food literacy; food security; food systems; vocational agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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