Together We Give...Together We Grow!!

Together We Give...Together We Grow!!

Join us for an evening of hors d'oeuvres and refreshments to support the future of The Green St. Louis Machine!! We are helping students get HEALTHY!

FREE PARKING! Cash bar available

You can donate to us here: www.GreenSTLMachine.org

Our Mission:

Engage in STEM/STEAM practices through Tower Garden technology;

Promote nutrition by growing, preparing, and eating healthy food with students, thereby teaching them to independently acquire their own food;

Develop skills in urban agriculture, entrepreneurship and community engagement.

Food apartheid generates high rates of food insecurity, childhood obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in St. Louis. Our city also struggles with community cohesiveness, with deeply rooted historical divides.

Since 2015, Green St. Louis Machine in partnership with community agencies and schools are addressing these challenges. Inspired by Stephen Ritz and the Green Bronx Machine, whose goal is to help communities dealing with food insecurity by connecting urban agriculture to school curriculum, St.

Louis was chosen as the first city to expand this model in local schools. The Green STL Machine currently supports PreK-12 programming at eight schools and five community organizations who have aeroponic Tower Garden growing systems. In 2018, The University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL),

College of Education joined the team as a partner in promoting meaningful science education and healthy eating in our St. Louis schools and communities. Today, we focus on health and STEAM education, through hands-on, cross-curricular experiences growing food and we nourish the community through events such as our annual Green Gala where students display what they have learned and eat what they have grown.

Partners Include:

 Mathews-Dickey Club of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis

 St. Louis Science Center’s Youth Exploring Science Program

 Gene Slay's Girls & Boys Club of St. Louis

 Missouri Botanical Garden School Programs and Partnerships

 Center for Youth on the RISE, St. Louis County Human Services

 St. Louis Science Center’s GROW Exhibit

 St. Louis Public Schools (Pamoja, Carr Lane and Woerner)

 Northside Community Elementary and Middle Schools

 Kairos Academies

 Grand Center Arts Academy

 Heru Urban Farming

 Show Me Green Schools

 The Biome School

 Marian Middle School

 Ferguson Middle School

Green St. Louis Machine is thrilled to add a working educational

greenhouse location! The summer of 2024 represented a creation of

greenhouse urban agricultural learning center for engaging teachers,

parents, students and residents of the community in sustainability and

social justice in food acquisition.

For more information about after-school or in-school programs, contact:

Sherry Amen, GSM Operations, 314-757-6607, [email protected] or

Host or Publisher Sherry Amen