"I wish that was what learning looked like EVERY day!
​So rich and so good!”

- 3rd grade partner teacher

​PEAS (Partners for Education, Agriculture and Sustainability) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Austin, TX. Founded with the mission to cultivate joyful connections with the natural world through outdoor learning and edible education, PEAS offers unique, project-based learning curriculum to participating school campuses, operates and maintains a community farm and leads professional development to help teachers bridge key science, nutrition, math and health concepts from the garden to the classroom. Delivering programming year-round, PEAS provides trained outdoor specialists who partner with educators at each school’s campus to co-teach outdoor and kitchen lessons, increasing students’ time spent learning in an outdoor, hands-on environment. PEAS currently works with 18 schools in the Austin area, engaging more than 2100 students in outdoor learning.

NEWS

PEAS in the Media

PEAS is featured in the January-February 2021 issue of Texas Gardener.
​PEAS was featured in the 
Austin American Statesman's
Photos of the Day for our work on our
Resiliency Gardens project.
Executive Director and Founder, Lauren Zappone Maples was interviewed for the article Gardening Restores Control To Lockdown Life  by Alexa Hart with
The Texas Standard.
Listen to Executive Director, Lauren Zappone Maples, talk about PEAS on Shades of Green.
Our 2020-21 diversity, equity, and inclusion goals are currently being revisited and revised with our new team members.  We will be updating them here once we complete our necessary work. 
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We firmly believe every person should have access to outdoor and edible education. Our connection to the natural world is vital in developing a strong sense of self and our interconnectedness to each other.

This past summer we hired Shiquita Yarbrough,  a race and equity consultant, to work alongside our team long-term and help us take a deeper look at our lessons, programming, and practices to ensure they are being implemented and delivered in an equitable and culturally responsive way.