High School

National Center for Appropriate Technology / FoodCorps

The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is a national nonprofit with regional offices in six states, including Iowa. Founded in 1976, NCAT’s mission is to help people by championing small-scale, local and sustainable solutions to reduce poverty, promote healthy communities, and protect natural resources. We do this through a wide variety of renewable energy and sustainable agriculture projects, most notably ATTRA, the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.

The Giving Field on Liberty Street

 The Giving Field on Liberty Street is a donation garden with a mission of feeding the hungry fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, as well as, provide education on living a healthier and more sustainable life through the garden.  All of the harvested food goes to the area soup kitchens to feed the hungry. 

 

This one acre piece of land is located across the street from St. Anne School that teaches children from pre-k thru eighth grade. The students and parents take an active part in planting, maintaining and harvesting at The Field.

Food Roots

Food Roots is located in Tillamook, on the beautiful North Oregon coast. Serving rural Tillamook County and the North Oregon Coast, Food Roots' mission is to cultivate a healthy food system in our region through serving as a catalyst and advocate for change. We do this through our programming, by forging fruitful partnerships, and by empowering communities and individuals to be more food self-reliant. Food Roots has provided resources and support for community and school gardens throughout Tillamook County and continues garden development throughout the region.

FoodCorps

FoodCorps is a nationwide team of leaders that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy. FoodCorps service members are in 250 schools in 12 states around the country.

Vertical Tower Garden

Aeroponic Tower Garden is a vertical growing system that can be utilized by small spaces. This would allow more schools to be a part of the edible education project. Not all schools have the land necessary for traditional gardening. All children need to be infored of where real food comes from and the benefits of healthy eating. The system is easy to use and environmentally friendly. I have seen preschoolers plant and tend to the garden.

Indigo Fields Forever

 

The purpose of this gardening project is to give Teens and Young Adults a place where they can learn about how to grow their own food & flowers, and create products from the land and from their imaginations. The idea is to have this be a self-contained program, where not only is the program itself supported, but a portion of the proceeds will go directly to the participants. Ideally, they will use it to pursue their passions and create an abundant life for themselves.

The Food Education Enrichment and Development (F.E.E.D.) Organization

The Food Education Enrichment and Development (F.E.E.D.) Organization is focused on enhancing
the lives of young women between the ages of 18-21 who have aged out of the foster system and
have limited life and employable skills. Through the F.E.E.D. Organization's "Let's Eat" program,
participants will learn how to grow and prepare foods they have farmed themselves (this includes
canning). These young women will also be given the opportunity to become Safe Staff certified

Farm-Based Education Network

The Farm-Based Education Network is an international nonprofit community established to support and strengthen the work of farm-based educators and administrators who contribute to the vitality of working agricultural landscapes and local food systems, human and community health, and education of current and future generations.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne Farms is an education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.  We offer daily field trips for school children (pre-K - 6th grade), throughout the academic year, as well as summer camps for youth ages 4-17, summer "Stewards-in-Training" opportunities for teens, and college and post-college internships and apprenticeships, based either in our education department or at our 7-acre Market Garden. 

Edible Garden Patches ~Growing Green Program

The program inspires and educates our community at all levels to garden organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and conserve wildlife habitat.

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