Poolesville HS

First Fruits Farms at Poolesville HS goal is to provide a working farm of the future to engage our students in exploring and solving broad societal challenges like hunger, childhood diabetes, dwindling resources and climate change as well as narrow technical challenges of a robotic renewable powered urban farm.

Poolesville's Global House program is the countywide magnet for environmental studies. Agriculture is the number one producer of greenhouse gases and uses 75% of the fresh water consumed.

This grant will allow our students to show the county wide county the challenges we face and how they can be solved.

This grant will allow FFF at Poolesville High to provide year round pesticide free food to those and need and our community at large. It will demonstrate a sustainable small footprint neighborhood farm model. Small carbon, labor, cost, space footprints. Environmentally and economically sustainable.

Our school farm will show how we can provide healthy local food to all.

This program is supported by Metropolitian Communty Development Corp.