Growing Green Hearts is science education to play, learn, and love nature.  Heidi Ferris started Growing Green Hearts in 2011 because it allows her to use her passions for earth’s interconnected systems with creative talents in the teaching of children and educators. Through environmental STEM education with GGH, community groups and schools are boosting their science literacy and creating on-site solutions for today’s environmental issues:  climate change, local nutrition, clean water, childhood health, habitat and creation care.

Prior to Growing Green Hearts, Heidi gained over a decade of first-hand experience through teaching middle and high school level science courses and curriculum writing for classrooms, faith-based groups and secular non-profits.  She’s worked with teachers and students from preschool to high school from Minnesota to Hawaii.   For Growing Green Hearts educators, teaching is an opportunity to empower the learner in their problem-solving skills and unique talents through a real-world scientific lens.

Heidi is a mother of 2 children ages 10 and 12.