Middle School

Bigfork School District #38

Bigfork School District is a service site partner with the national service organization, FoodCorps. Bigfork School District started building the school garden in 2012. A FoodCorps service member joined the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, in 2013 to work with three area middle schools. Among the three, the service member serves in nutrition classes, school gardens and farm to school procurement.  

Somers Middle School

Somers Middle School is a service site with the national service organization, FoodCorps. A FoodCorps Service Member will be joining the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, to work with three area middle schools. Among the three, she will serve in nutrition classes, school gardens, a hydroponic greenhouse, and farm to school procurement.

 

Somers Middle School has mutliple school gardens, including an indoor hydroponic garden and an outdoor rasied bed vegetable garden.

 

National Center for Appropriate Technology & Butte Public School District

 This is a service site with the national program FoodCorps.

The Farm to School program serves students in the Butte Public School District. Students receive nutrition education lessons, after school food and garden programming, food tasting activities in the school cafeteria, and much more! The Farm to School program is also working with the Butte School Lunch program to source and serve more fresh, local foods in the lunchroom.

The Mamá Tingó Garden

 The Mamá Tingó garden is a garden classroom at The Mariposa Center for Girls on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. The Mariposa Center for Girls offers an alternative education program to adolescent girls in Cabarete, empowering and educating them with the vision to end generational poverty. Environmental education is an integral part of our holistic girls education program.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County

 Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension helps the diverse population of New Jersey adapt to a rapidly changing society and improve their lives and communities through an educational process that uses science based knowledge. Through science-based educational programs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension truly enhances the quality of life for residents of New Jersey and brings the wealth of knowledge of the state university to local communities.

 

Isles, Inc

 Founded in 1981, Isles, Inc. is a community development and environmental organization based in Trenton, New Jersey. With a mission to foster self-reliant families and healthy, sustainable communities, we design and develop effective services that support this mission and share what we learn with others who can make a difference.

Greater Brunswick Charter School

 Greater Brunswick Charter School is a free, independent public school founded by area parents and educators in 1998. Located in a newly renovated building in New Brunswick, NJ, our school welcomes a diverse population from New Brunswick, Highland Park, and Edison, as well as other districts around the state.

Hamilton Central School's Seed To Table Program

Our raised garden bed "seed to table" program began in 2011.  We currently have five 12' x 4' raised garden beds in use.  We also have a small pumpkin patch, as well as several composting bins used for replacement soil within our raised beds.  

Our school also has a greenhouse, where many of the plants that are planted in our raised beds are started and cared for by students, until the weather is optimum to plant outside.  

The Farm at Effie Kokrine Early College Charter School

 The Farm at Effie Kokrine Early College Charter School is a special project of Effie Kokrine FFA. Students participate in a summer "Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture" class and grow a one-acre vegetable garden, selling the vegetables at farmer's market. During the school year, FFA students take classes like Fiber Arts and raise angora rabbits for fiber. In the future, we hope to expand to raise livestock such as chickens and goats and have a full-time vocational agriculture program.

Tierra Pacifica Charter School

Tierra Pacifica Charter School, formed in 1998, is a collaborative effort among parents, teachers and community members committed to the development of the whole child. Through the establishment of a charter school, we believe we can work within the school system to create an innovative alternative model to traditional public elementary schools.

Tierra Pacifica educates children from Kindergarten through 8th grade. The school is designed for families who want to take an active role in the education of their children, both in and out of the classroom.

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