Kindergarten

Peabody School

The Peabody School Garden is a garden to table program for ages 3 through Kindergarten. It currently uses the Foodprints prgram for curriculum. Students participate in maintaining the garden year round as well as harvesting, cooking, studying soil, and composting. There is a kitchen classroom used for lessons as well as outdoor classes. The program is run by a garden director along with an intern and parent volunteers.

Education Outside

Education Outside is cultivating the next generation of scientific thinkers and environmental stewards by introducing urban children to hands-on explorations in public school gardens.

We support a service corps of emerging leaders who work full-time at 37 of San Francisco’s public elementary schools to bring nature and science directly into the hands of 14,000 students each year.

The New York Botanical Garden

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: The New York Botanical Garden, in collaboration with Leave It Better, proposes an education and procurement project to benefit 12 public and charter schools in New York City. The project will test a holistic school gardening model that integrates school gardening activities with hands‐on workshops in the New York Botanical Garden’s Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden and Greenmarket.

Farm2Five

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties proposes to implement a farm to school program over two years to create new, robust farm to school projects in seven schools in our district.

Alachua Farm to School Program

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Alachua County Public Schools seeks to increase the amount of locally produced foods served in school meals, and to expand nutrition and wellness curriculum through support from a Farm to School Planning Grant. In developing a comprehensive farm to school program, Alachua County Public Schools will focus on high need Title I elementary schools.

REAP Food Group Farm to School Program

REAP’s Farm to School program works with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) to bring fresh, nutritious, locally- and sustainably- grown food to children. The program teaches children about healthy eating and the environment, strengthens links between the classroom and the lunchroom, and helps establish a stable market for local farmers.

The following is a summary of our Farm to School work:

Portsmouth, NH School District and Nutrition Department - CLIPPERS Farm to School Program

Our farm to school program (CLIPPERS Farm to School) in the Portsmouth, NH School District and Nutrition Department has been made possible by the receipt of USDA Planning and Implementation grants. We are currently half way through our Implementation Grant period with a strong focus this spring on identifying and executing garden-tied curriculum.

Northeast Iowa Farm to School Program

The Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness Initiative (FFI) has brought people in Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties together to make our region a place where every day, all people have access to healthy, locally grown foods and abundant opportunities for physical activity in the places where we live, learn, work and play. The Northeast Iowa FFI partners with Luther College's Environmental Studies Department to house FoodCorps members. 

Modesto City Schools Farm to School

Modesto City Schools implemented a district-wide farm to school program aimed at increasing the quantity and variety of local and regional food items in school meals. We received an Implementation Grant from the 2014 USDA Farm to School Program.

Sierra Harvest

Sierra Harvest is an organization dedicated to educating, inspiring, and connecting western Nevada County’s families to fresh, local, seasonal foods. Our farm to school program is in 19 schools serving over 6,000 students! The program includes a local produce stand at each school, a “Harvest of the Month” program, farm field trips, school garden consultations, and guest appearances by farmers, nutrition educators, and chefs. We also have an educational farm called the Food Love Project which provides field trips, serivce projects, and Upicks.

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