Farm to School
Foodcorps
FoodCorps is a national nonprofit service organization that describes its purpose as connecting “kids to healthy food in school, so they can lead healthier lives and reach their full potential.” Focused on high-needs schools, members serve where 50% or more of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Your involvement enables this essential program to continue.
In 2011, Groundwork became a founding service site for FoodCorps, and today we remain a FoodCorps service site, with a service member active in schools in Boyne Falls, Pellston, Alanson and East Jordan. Through FoodCorps, our staff and service members work directly with school administrators to prepare hands-on lessons, improve the health of lunches and create a healthy food culture.
Please contact Groundwork Local Food Policy Specialist, Jen Schaap for more information about how FoodCorps programming can help your school’s children establish lifelong healthy food skills.
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?
Foodcorps News
Contemplations on Peanut Butter & Jelly
It was my first time driving on the East Coast, and I was headed to meet with Chef Dan Giusti of Brigaid, a company he formed to place professionally trained chefs in schools. Dan had recently left the two-star Michelin restaurant Noma, in Copenhagen, to work in...
Legislators express support for 10 Cents a Meal
Above: The cafeteria line at Boyne Falls Public School proves the delicious and healthy potential of 10 Cents a Meal. We are proud and exceedingly grateful that support for 10 Cents a Meal can transcend differences in political philosophy. Additionally, with grantees...
Support for 10 Cents a Meal transcends ideological and geographic differences
From the Motor City to Copper Country in the reaches of the Keweenaw Peninsula, 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan’s Kids & Farms is making an impact across the state! Here in Lansing, where I’m based, a new legislative class is upon us and the cogs and gears of...
