Island Grown Schools

 Island Grown Schools is Martha's Vineyard Farm to School Program.  We work with almost every schoolage child on the island, from 2-18 years old, at all seven K-12 schools and at six island pre-schools.  We have installed and support gardens at all 13 of our partner schools, work with cafeteria staff to bring locally sourced meat and produce to school meals at every school, collaborate with classroom teachers to lead farm, gaden, and nutrition-based curriculum-tied lessons, and lead field trips to island family farms.  

Our K-12 curriculum toolkit, with priority lessons for each grade level all tied to state teaching frameworks with associated activities and a growing body of evaluation materials, is favailable ree on our website, www.islandgrown.org/schools.  

In 2012/13, we became the first school district in Massachusetts to launch a Harvest of the Month program, and are now supporting the efforts of the Massachusetts Farm to School Project to spread this program across the state.  We also launched the Cape and Island Farm to School Network in an effort to support the growing farm to school movement in our region.