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.

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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

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