Middle School

UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition Program - Farm to School and Community

Our Farm to School and Community (F2SC) program makes Florida-grown foods more accessible to SNAP-eligible people in Florida. The F2SC team approaches Farm to School holistically by partnering with a variety of stakeholders throughout the food system. We work with local partners — schools, farmers, businesses, farmers markets, food service professionals, non-profit organizations — and state and federal agencies to improve the health of Florida citizens, while benefiting farmers and the local economy.

Some of our projects include:

The Schoolyard as World

Our Sustainability Committee created the metaphor that gives our program its name: The Schoolyard as World.  This world is the laboratory where our students can experience citizenship and learn of a life wide with access to nature and its amenities as well as those of chickens and food fresh from their gardens.  In our program, students will also enlarge our connection to people and resources in our community through outreach and service learning.

Stanislaus Food &Nutrition Network (SFNN)

The Stanislaus Food & Nutrition Network (SFNN) is a diverse set of local stakeholders; consisting of farmers, government and non-government agencies, local businesses, and schools coordinating Farm to Community efforts throughout Stanislaus County to ensure consistent, cohesive messages that promote healthy lifestyles and support locally grown produce.

PROJECT MERIENDA / KENNY KUSINA

My name is Kenrick Mercado, and my sister’s name is Richel Hall. We both live in Richmond, but I work in San Francisco as a Chef, and Richel is a full-time student at Contra Costa College and a part-time Teacher Assistant at a parochial after-school program. In 2015, we established our after-school education program at San Francsico's Bessie Carmichael School campuses, the state's first bilingual Filipino public school.  Our program we created, is called Project Merienda, named after the Pilipino word for “afternoon meal.”

Laurel Tree Charter School

Laurel Tree Charter School is a K-12 family-style school in Arcata, Ca. We serve a diverse range of students from different social economic and cultural backgrounds. Our mission is to create a sustainable model of education which provides all students with accessible curriculum, based on college preparatory standards, while developing life and social skills in a mixed age setting.

The Seed Community Food Hub

The Seed Community Food Project is an initiative aimed at increasing community food security in Guelph, Ontario. We are currently a project of the Guelph Community Health Centre (CHC)- with plans to establish ourselves as an independent non-profit organzation in the next three years.

Grow to Learn and Governors Island Teaching Garden

As part of GrowNYC’s Greening department, both Grow to Learn and the Governors Island Teaching Garden aim to use urban gardens as a space for exploration, experiential learning and community building. Grow to Learn is the citywide school gardens initiative for New York City. We work with public and charter schools to ensure that gardens are sustainable teaching resources in the long term, responsive to each individual community’s vision and needs, and transformative for student learning in the cafeteria, classroom, and beyond.

FRESHFARM FoodPrints Program

What is FoodPrints?

FoodPrints is FRESHFARM Market’s food education program that aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through highly engaging, hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking and eating nutritious, local foods in season.   We work in partnership with administrators and teachers to ensure that FoodPrints is a relevant, enriching program that teaches Common Core, Next Generation Science and DCPS/OSSE Health standards, and that adapts to the unique curricular goals of each school we partner with.

Neighborhood Farmers Markets (Seattle)

The Neighborhood Farmers Markets manages 7 food-focused farmers markets in Seattle, WA. We are a nonprofit 501c3 organization with a mission to support local farms and promote local eating. 

Mission: The Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance is committed to supporting and strengthening Washington's small family farm businesses by creating and operating vibrant, successful neighborhood farmers markets.

Communique Middle School Gardening Club

 

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