Sayre High School

The goal of the Sayre Garden project is to promote access to healthy foods in low-income West Philadelphia neighborhoods surrounding the school. We believe that healthy, nourishing food is a basic building block of healthy communities and that schools can play a leading role in community health promotion. A grant from the Whole Kids Foundation will allow Sayre High School to develop a new and innovative food distribution program to supplement our existing weekly schoolyard youth farm stand. Several years ago Sayre High School started a community healthy clinic that is open to the community. Nearly all of the patients at this clinic are low-income mothers with young children. During 2013 we would like to offer free cooking classes to clinic patients and sell affordable produce shares that contain foods from the recipes we prepare. Because low-income families cannot afford a traditional Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscription, shares will be available on a weekly basis.

This program is supported by TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.