Farm to School Grants Available for Watauga & Ashe Counties

High Country Local First & Lettuce Learn to offer $2,500 in school garden funding.  For every Local First Rewards Card sold, High Country Local First (HCLF) donates $5 to support local school garden programs in Watauga and Ashe Counties.   Farm-to-school grant awards to total $2,500 will be given to local schools and preschools interested in building or expanding their garden-based education programming. Lettuce Learn is helping to manage the 2016 grant program in hopes of assisting schools and teachers with implementation, program sustainability, and professional development.

Funds are for direct support of school garden programs, including but not limited to:

• Purchase of seeds, plants, supplies, or equipment
• Stipends for Garden Coordinators
• Professional development opportunities
• Garden curriculum
• Supplies and materials for projects that enhance connections between the school garden and the classroom, cafeteria, waste reduction program, or local farms and farmers.

Download application (DOC)

Applications due Jan 29, 2016
Please submit your completed application* as one PDF document by 1/29/15 at 11:59pm 2015 to:
[email protected] 
or 
Lettuce Learn c/o Math & Science Education Center
PO Box 32091
Boone, NC 28608

*We will send a confirmation email once we receive your application.  If you DO NOT receive confirmation, please contact us right away to ensure nothing is lost in cyberspace or snail mail.
 
Contact Courtney Baines Smith with questions:
[email protected]
828-262-7313

Hardin Park's 6th Grade Science Garden, one of the 2015 awardees, utilizes worm castings donations from Roots of Progress for their new garden.