School Cafeterias

Luther College Gardens and Farms

 Luther College is proud to produce local foods in several on- and off-campus locations. Student workers tend to our production gardens over the summer. We also have two on-campus edible landscapes, a "Walk Around the World" diversity garden and an Edible Landscape near Valders Hall of Science. We also host several community garden plots near our production gardens and have residence hall gardens at both Norby House and the Sustainability House.

 

We have donated produce to the Food Pantry and also host on-campus Salad Bowl Days and produce giveaways.

St. Joseph Community School Garden

This fall was our second year of our garden program. Our garden reaches K-8 every student in multiple ways. 5th and 6th grade students help with the planting and harvesting, and all students use produce in cooking lessons, eat produce in school lunches and classroom snacks, and use the garden in class curriculum. Family volunteers help with summer maintenance. We also donate excess produce to our local food pantry. We had a large plot at our local hospital gardens and four new raised beds. This spring, we hope to add additional raised beds and are looking into a hoop house.

 

New Hampton High School FFA Greenhouse

 The New Hampton High School FFA Chapter recently installed a greenhouse project including a greenhouse structure with an aquaponics station for starting seeds and a hoop house for extending the growing season of crops. The greenhouse is managed by the FFA and Ag. classes. Produce is used in FACS classes and in the school cafeteria.

 

Through the Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness Initiative, New Hampton has been home to an AmeriCorps/FoodCorps member since the 2011-2012 school year.

Turkey Valley Community School District

Turkey Valley has had a school garden for several years. It is primarily cared for by the 4th grade classroom, with help from the High School environmental science classes. All students K-12 enjoy garden produce in our cafeteria.

Through the Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness Initiative, Turkey Valley has been home to a FoodCorps service member since the 2011-2012 school year.

Feast Down East

Feast Down East is a non-profit organization, grant-funded through UNC Wilmington. Its goal is to build a strong vibrant local food system. Feast Down East helps small scale limited-resource farmers build and sustain their farms and connect them with local markets, such as schools, universities, restaurants, institutions and direct-to-consumers. Feast Down East aims to educate consumers and students on the importance of supporting local agriculture and increasing the consumption of fresh local foods.

Stonehurst Elementary

 Stonehurst has a wonderful growing garden filled with vegtables, flowers and plants. 

Norwich Public Schools

 Norwich Public Schools is a service site with the national program FoodCorps.

The Green Heart Project

The Green Heart Project is a non-profit organization based in Charleston, South Carolina that builds school gardens and farm-to-school programs to educate students, connect people and cultivate community.  We currently oversee five school gardens and 12 school-garden programs in mostly low-income schools in Charleston, SC.  We serve 1,200 students (K-5) annually across those five school partners through a series of in-school programming, after-school programming and culinary classes.

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