Pre-Kindergarten

The school garden serves three goals for our school community. First, it is a good source for our lunch program. The kitchen staff serves healthy foods, often locally sourced and from our own garden. Another goal is to use the garden as an outdoor classroom, a way to connect to curriculum across many age groups and disciplines, a place to guide students in community service, environmental stewardship, and food justice issues. A third goal is to grow vegetables to use for our school outreach efforts.

Since 2007, Slow Food MIami has developed and administered a large school garden program that impacts up to 35,000 students at over 50 elementary, middle and high schools in the Miami-Dade school district.  We give mini grants, install raised garden beds, supply financial resources and educational materials and training to the qualified schools that apply for our grants.  We are very wide reaching and are now going more deeply into the classrooms via curriculum integration and into the cafteterias with garden produce being added to the daliy fare offered to students.  

The food pantry at St John's works with area schools to ensure kid friendly, healthy food is available to the members of our community.

Through working with the administrators and guidance counselors at area schools we are able to identify families who need help putting a meal on their table. Our food pantry collects non-perishables and strives to provide fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy and animal-based proteins through the generous donations of our parishioners.

SHIP is a partnership between the Williamsburg James City County (WJCC) School Division and the Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF), and a multitude of community partners that are committed to working together to create a healthier community. SHIP’s mission is to improve the health and wellness of WJCC students and staff by supporting and promoting healthy eating and active lifestyle habits in the schools, homes and the community.