Pre-Kindergarten

FoodPrints at Tyler Elementary School

FoodPrints programs are now in 5 public schools in Washington, DC. The FoodPrints garden at Tyler Elementary is one of our newest, started in the spring of 2014 with a school garden grant from OSSE (DC's dept of education), generous support from FreshFarm Markets, and lots of help from the school community (students, staff, and parents).

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.

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.

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.

Perry County Farm to School

The Perry County Farm to School Program benefits over 4,000 Perry County students in the rural Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. An obstacle of being in the Appalachian region is that resources are limited, but in Perry County there is a community movement to combat those limitations by providing a support framework for healthier communities.

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. 

Kansas Department of Agriculture 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: The Kansas Department of Agriculture will operate a pilot project in eight school districts to help to develop food procurement pathways to increase the amount of local food served through school meal programs; embed nutrition‐based education activities into the school curriculum; and provide community‐based partnerships, technical assistance, and capacity building support to the eight pilot school districts.

IDEA Healthy Kids Here Program

At IDEA Public Schools, our goal is to get 100% of our students on the road to and through college. Our rigorous academics and “whatever it takes” mindset, have helped us make tremendous strides in this work. But we recognized that the roots of academic success for our students run far deeper than classroom learning alone. In order for our students to get to and through college, and beyond, they also need a foundation of skills necessary to maintain their health. So, in 2014 we launched our Healthy Kids Here Initiative to become the Healthiest School District in America.

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