EVENTS AT MEZZACELLO
Food, Fun, Robots, Automation, Energy, and Farming in the Heart of the City.
Innovations in 2026 Summer Camp and Workshops. This summer, evert camp and workshop will focus on the three main strengths of Mezzacello Urban Farm:
Animal Interactions - Livestock care, maintainance, and wellness exploration
Vegetable and Ecology - Integrating tech and exploration into gardens, foods, and soils to make food and feed for humans, animals, and healthy soils
Mechanical Exploration - STEM exploration in robotics, automation, engineering, and renewable energy that helps run this urban farm
Explore Our 2026 Camps
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Did you know that Mezzacello Urban Farm and it’s innovative applied STEM and hands on agricultural models can come to you? Here ate Mezzacello Urban Farm we have developed five Mobile Sustainability lab? These are complete and autonomous mobile labs on wheels, with their own power, 5G hotspot, data input, experiments, live animals, and of course fun activities.
The mobile sustainability lab is designed to be easily maneuverable, sturdy, and accessible with wheels that work equally well on grass and gravel as they do on wood and concrete. Have a look at our labs and see which one might be right for you.
Mobile Sustainability Labs
Livestock Mobile Lab: Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Crickets, Fish, and feedstock materials
Renewable Energy Mobile L:ab: Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, Low-Amp Inverters, Batteries, Fuses, and Racking Systems
BioEngineering Mobile Lab: Materials Handling, Erection Systems, Simple Machines, Reverse-Engineering Design Challenges
In-School Visits and Presentations
Mezzacello Urban Farm can bring the farm to you! We co-create our Farming STEM content with students and educators. Everything needed to present our animals, systems, and robotics systems is mobile and ready to go. Our mobile labs and presentation fees start at $200. We can tailor the experience easily!
We understand and recognize standards, modules and seasonal teaching needs.
All presentations include the following:
Introduction to People and New Ideas
Interact animals, vegetables, and mechanics
Work on Design Challenges
Fun and Games
Review and Present, student-led documentation
(This photo was taken by a participating student)
Mezzacello Urban Farm Garden Tours
The Foodist Blogs
With access to fresh food and gardens, what else could we do?
The Foodist is our blog and cooking education initiative to demonstrate how sustainability can also be savory and superb.
We find recipes and tweak them, adding ways we integrate fresh vegetables, herbs, and protein resources available on an urban farm into the meals we eat her at Mezzacello Urban Farm. When ingredients are required that we can’t produce, we tell you. But when we can produce them, we SHOW you. Become a foodist with us!
Service Hours and Volunteer Days for Schools
As a non-profit AND a unique 21st Century Urban Farm in the middle of downtown Columbus, Mezzacello is a great place to have students fulfill service hour requirements. There is so much here to inspire students in service. From adaptive ecologies, to livestock management, to water collection, purification, and reuse, to renewable energy, and of course gardening. There is truly something for every team!
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Leadership Training (MenTerns)
“Mezzacello Urban Farm is always a Surprise. We love the mission, the vision, and My kids adore Jim and his programming.”
— Parent of a Camper