Educational Programming for the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders
Future Stewards is a hands-on, environmental education program that connects K–12 students with their classroom curriculum through real-world experiences in nature.
It is designed to foster leadership, creativity, and critical thinking and serves students from diverse communities who often face barriers to nature-based learning, giving them a direct role in project planning, habitat design, and restoration work.
Future Stewards
Through partnerships with mentors and professionals—many of whom reflect the communities they serve—students explore real-world careers in ecology, restoration, and environmental science.
By leading habitat restoration projects at or near their schools, students create vibrant, native ecosystems that serve as living outdoor classrooms—transforming both how they learn and the world around them.
2024 PROGRAM IMPACTS
Engaged over 690 students across fives schools
Established native gardents at four metro-area schools
84% of participants identify as BIPOC or experience barriers to financial security
Planted over 500 plant and tree species, supporting local biodiversity and pollinator habitat.
Why we believe in Future Stewards.
Too many students lack access to nature—and with it, the opportunities to learn, lead, and thrive.
Future Stewards bridges that gap by:
Breaking down barriers to nature-based education
Supporting academic achievement through hands-on, place-based learning
Empowering young people as future environmental leaders.
Interested in learning more about Future Stewards:
Fill our this survey to request a consultation, or
Contact Jessica Drummond, Naturalist and Outreach Coordinator.
“The continued and ongoing involvement with Greening has greatly increased students’ comofrt with outdorr activiites, knowledge of native plants nad restoration, understanding of envionrmental justice issuesin their community, and knowledge, skills and motivation to work to care for plants, animals nad hte land around them”
