High School

St. Joseph Mercy Hospital near Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in Michigan is home to the nation's first hospital-based farm and clinical accessible hoop house.

We converted over 20 acres of lawn into arable farmland, where we grow alfalfa, fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs. We work with two production hoop houses and have a third accessible hoop house for rehabilitation therapy.

The Farm hosts a weekly farmers market in the hospital lobby, provides a CSA for staff, provides produce for patient meals and the hospital's deli, and donates produce to our local food pantry.

      Our vision for this project is to empower sustainability in our own community through education and community involvement. During the 2015-2016 school year parents, elementary students, high school students, staff, and community members of Sweetwater Elementary shared a similiar interest towards school gardening.  We began working with a local farm, Beckman Farms.  By January, 2015 we had a  hydroponic garden on our campus which grows vegetables and herbs.

The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is a hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  Our state has one the highest percentages in the United States of children under 18 years of age who are food insecure on a regular basis -  1 in 4.  In our seven counties alone, over 275,000 people are food insecure.  Our mission is to pioneer innovative, transformative solutions designed to end hunger in our community.

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.