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Are you interested in getting students engaged with hands-on learning from a professional farmer while having access to healthy local food grown at school? Then Young Agrarians have a grant for you!
๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ ๐๐ผ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น ๐๐ โ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐. This funding is for school districts that want to establish their first school farm. A school farm is a piece of school district land (minimum 5,000 square feet) that has either a farm business or a non-profit growing food in collaboration with students and the broader community.
The benefits of a school farm are that students receive food literacy education from a professional farmer through hands-on learning opportunities that teach them how to grow their food. The food can then be used to prepare school meals and in other school programs. It can also be shared and/or sold to parents and community members.
The successful applicant will receive support from Farm to School BC to help establish the farm with an additional option of support from
to help match the school farm with a farmer. There are two $10,000 grants available for infrastructure to start your school districtโs first school farm.
Interested in applying? Learn more about this School Farm Grant opportunity at farmtoschoolbc.ca/school-farm-grant/
Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2021
