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Grow where you are planted
CANCEL FOOD INSECURITY-ONE STEP AT A TIME

EACH STEP MATTERS

  • Step 1 – Teach the kids to LOVE healthy produce.

  • Step 2 – Teach the kids to LOVE healthy movement.

  • Step 3 – Improve grades through building a healthier brain, regular exercise & tutoring.

  • Step 4 – Teach the children to grow their own food.

  • Step 5 – Teach the children the entrepreneurial skills of organizing/participating  in farmer’s markets.
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  • Step 6 – Repeat until there are no more food deserts & food insecurities.

Hydroponics​

“Freight Farm”
  • Shipping container - takes up 4 parking spots
  • Grow 13,000 heads of lettuce every 45 days (peppers, strawberries, spinach & more)
  • Controlled by a “Farm Hand” - water, temperature & light
  • Less waste, fewer chemicals, controlled environment, no pests or pesticides
  • Recoup expenses end of year 3
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Soil Based/ Farm Experience

  •  Fewer than 5 % of students make the connection between a farm & food
  •  Nature & stress reduction
  •  Empathy learned from animal care
  •  Few have access or visit parks regularly - will become voters who reject levies
  •  Summer school & summer jobs
  •  Experiences outside of their neighborhood
  •  Create interest in ag & technology careers
  •  Justice for black farmer’s act
 "I think it's definitely a step in the right direction …  but we need to create pipelines for African Americans  to be educated on a 21st-century farm”

Grow, sell, re-invest, repeat

  •  On school site, improve access and obstacles to getting produce home
  • Accept SNAP
  • Subsidize growers who participate (produce sold at cost/ we pay growers “profit”
  • 5th-8th grade student workers, % of student grown sales go towards scholarship fund 
  • Students improve life skills
  • Sales, marketing, technology, customer service experience
  • Host year round
  • Sell sponsorships/Unicity
  • Supply local restaurants & school cafeterias
  • Self sustaining after year 2
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