Maine

Host Site: University of Maine Cooperative Extension

University of Maine Cooperative Extension has been committed to healthy kids, food production and building tomorrow’s leaders for over 95 years. With staff housed in all 16 counties, they work closely with community partners to meet the needs of Maine citizens using research-based knowledge. Maine has a very high level of collaboration supporting its rapidly spreading Farm to School movement.

Service Sites:

FoodCorps Service Members work in schools with high poverty and obesity rates and positively influence the youth they serve by teaching them to grow, harvest, cook and enjoy healthful food. Members connect with food service staff and local farmers to bring more fresh foods into school nutrition programs. School gardens in varying stages of development are an integral part of all Service Sites, where Members work to integrate nutrition, food systems education and gardening skills into school/afterschool programs.

See the following websites for more complete information about our Maine Service Sites:

• Cultivating Community
• Healthy Communities of the Capital Area (a Healthy Maine Partnership)
• Healthy Oxford Hills (a Healthy Maine Partnership)
• Rippling Waters Organic Farm
• St. Mary’s Nutrition Center
• Washington County: One Community

Maine service members Laura Budde and Nora Saks were featured in an article in the Washington Post last fall.  Click here to read the full article!