Garden Classrooms

Davenport Community School District

Serving alongside a nutrition educator with Davenport's Community School District, the FoodCorps service member is teaching Pick a Better Snack and Act lessons in eleven different elementary schools, to all first grade classes. In total, the Pick a Better Snack program in Davenport reaches approximately 2,400 kids every month, in kindergarten, first grade, and third grade.

Salem County Career and Technical High School

 The mission of the Salem County Vocational Technical School District is to prepare students for employment, for further education leading to employment, and for lifelong learning.

Salem County Health Department

 The Salem County Health Department employs a full time health educators who covers any and all health related topics that your group or organization may need. These presentations can be a onetime event or a series of educational presentations designed to build upon each other and provide comprehensive knowledge of a particular condition or illness. The Salem County Health Department is committed to providing our community with the resources to take charge of their lives and improve their health.

Green Plate Special

Founded in 2011, Green Plate Special (GPS) engages ethnically diverse, middle-school youth (ages 10 – 14) through classroom- and after-school, hands-on learning in the self-sufficiency skill of growing, cooking, and eating healthy, tasty food.

Missoula County Public School District

Missoula County Public Schools is an official service site partner with FoodCorps, a national service organization.

 Missoula County Public Schools serves area students through nine elementary schools, three middle schools and four high schools (three in Missoula and one in Seeley Lake). The District also operates an Alternative High School program, Early Learning Preschool program at Jefferson Center and an adult education program at The Lifelong Learning Center.

Cayuse Prairie School

Cayuse Prairie School is a small, rural elementary school located in Kalispell, MT. The school is a service site partner 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 schools. Among the three, the service member will serve in nutrition classes, school gardens, and farm to school procurement.

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.

Lockwood Boys and Girls Club

The Lockwood Clubhouse is open to all Lockwood youth Kindergarten through 8th grade.

The FoodCorps Service Member at the Lockwood Boys and Girls Club in Billings, MT, is teaching hands-on food, nutrition, and garden education with elementary school students. The service member is helping to expand the garden at the Lockwood Boys and Girls Club and having some awesome culinary adventures with the food that they grow. 
 

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