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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:

Edible School Garden Project @ Humming Montessori School Osaka

The Philosophy of Humming Edible School Garden Project

Feel nature, learn for life.

    自然を感じ、人生のために学ぼう

Grow safe and healthy food.

    安全で環境に配慮した作物を育てよう

Eat our fresh seasonal vegetables and fruits.

    季節の新鮮な野菜や果物を食べよう

Cook simply with all our senses together.

    みんなで五感を使ってシンプルに料理しよう

Think about Food Cycle and sustainable environment.

    「食」に関する循環を考え、持続可能な活動にしよう

Set our table with nice tableware and flowers and enjoy eating together.

    みんなで食卓を飾り、楽しく一緒に食べよう

Sagamore Hills STEM Garden

Sagamore Hills Elementary School's S.T.E.M. Garden program was developed to give our students the opportunity to put the knowledge gained in the classroom to work in a real world environment. Having them leave the confines of the traditional classroom and get out into nature has proven to be the optimal environment for the best hands-on, experiential learning to happen. Every component of our program not only correlates and compliments the state required curriculum but expands upon it, allowing our students' natural curiosities, imagination, and ingenuity to take flight.

Union Elementary School Garden

The Union Elementary School Garden, located at a small rural school in Eastern Oregon began in 2015 when Head Teacher, Savana Pool planted a small pumpkin patch for the students. The students loved working in the pumpkin patch so much that we have decided to construct and install a full-fledged garden Spring 2016. This learning/experimental garden will include a greenhouse, fruits and vegetables, herbs, flowers, a reading garden surrounded by a small orchard and, of course, pumpkins. We are organic and use only heirloom and open pollinated varieties.

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.”

Wagner Ranch School Garden

~~First I will explain a little bit about us.  We have recently been given an area of around a quarter acre of land by the local school district to develop for our school site as a learning outdoor garden classroom.  Previously this land was part of a greater nature area which the district and community uses for district environmental education programs and nature-related festivals.  The area is alive with native plants, like coffeeberry,  ceanothus, teasel, willow, heritage champagne grapes and oaks which have been central to the environmental education programs, but there are several area

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.

The Patachou Foundation

The Patachou Foundation feeds wholesome meals to food-insecure school children in our community and teaches them to create healthy habits. 

Garden Grove Unified Strawberry Festival Gardening program

We have not started a program, but it's my heart's desire to start a gardening program in my district. My mission is to teach our students to empower themselves to make healthy food choices through gardening. I have parents that are willing to help get this program started, & I know our students will be so excited to participate in any way they can!

Crane School

We have three gardens on our campus: the upper garden classroom beds and chicken coop, the lower garden- a traditional garden plot, and the Crane Country Farm- a hydroponic garden, designed with the goal that they serve as a collection of outdoor classrooms to teach our students an appreciation of nature, put the fundamentals of the scientific method in to practice and encourgage healthy food choices. 

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