The Skillet

This fall, Polson Middle School garden students organized the third annual Garden Harvest Feast to celebrate a successful growing season and to share their garden bounty with the community. The feast was an incredible undertaking for students and staff; it took an entire year’s worth of planning, planting, and tending to the garden in order &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/place-everyone-even-squash-table/">Continued</a>

Backyard Growers, FoodCorps’ local site partner in Gloucester, MA, is a small but rapidly growing community organization that provides support and resources to school, community and backyard gardeners to establish vegetable gardens and become life-long gardeners. It has only three permanent staff and four AmeriCorps members, including one from FoodCorps. When that FoodCorps service member, &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/3-generations-foodcorps-backyard-growers/">Continued</a>

For two years now we have been partnering with C&amp;S Wholesale Grocers and First Book to provide our AmeriCorps service members with money to purchase books to stock their schools’ teaching libraries. Year after year, these six books come in with rave reviews from corps members and students alike!  We’ve included some of their testimonies below &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/6-books-turn-kids-brave-eaters/">Continued</a>

Grant provides $20,000 of funding to expand healthy school programming in Connecticut

From the moment I began working at Philip’s Academy Charter School with ecospaces in Newark, NJ, I knew my service site was special. Rooftop garden, self-operated dining room and locally sourced menus, teaching kitchen: check, check, check! Hundreds of creative, enthusiastic and sassy students and their nurturing teachers: check and check! Philip’s had it all… well, &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/how-to-deal-when-flotus-visits-your-school-in-five-phases/">Continued</a>