The Food Shuttle teaches sustainable food production and nutritious meal preparation, promotes the establishment of gardens to increase healthy food access and develops sustainable community food system models.
Growing School Gardens
Growing School Gardens is a partnering project that helps schools achieve their school garden goals. The Food Shuttle works with schools to deliver hands-on education to students, train teachers, provide after school programming through Sprout Scouts, and increase access to fresh produce through gardening education. We work with our school partners to determine sustainability plans that make garden education a part of the school. If you’re interested in becoming a Growing School Gardens partner school, contact VP of Agricultural Programs, Jonathan Lee, at jonathan@foodshuttle.org.
Elementary School Partners:
Wake: Swift Creek | Walnut Creek | MECME | Bugg | Poe
Durham: RN Harris | Eastway | Holt | Bethesda | Spring Valley
Growing Garden Classrooms
Growing Garden Classrooms is a series of workshops for educators on how to incorporate garden-based lesson units into the standard course of study, and grow a more sustainable school garden program.
These workshops are free and open to all educators, and all participants receive a resource binder complete with lesson plans, garden diagrams, and seeds!
Grow-At-Home Kits
Grow-At-Home Kits are for anyone who wants to start growing their green thumbs. These kits are designed to grow micro-greens and herbs in as little space as a windowsill. The kits include compost, seeds, growing instructions, directions on how to make a container from recycled materials, and a recipe for how to use your freshly grown foods. All materials are provided in English and Spanish. For more garden activities to try at home, you can check out the E.A.T. Newsletters!
Request kits in Durham: https://forms.gle/tbtnRkrLMz9EngEA6
Request kits in Wake, Chatham, Orange, Johnston, Edgecombe, Nash: https://forms.gle/8Ke4ArGqBR2a2LPMA
E.A.T Educational Newsletters: https://www.eatnc.org/check-out-the-eat-newsletter
Sprout Scouts
Sprouts Scouts is a skills-based program developed by FoodCorps and Life Lab that teaches students about cooking, gardening and nutrition education in a hands-on, fun and engaging way. Similar to Boy and Girl Scouts, Sprout Scouts is built on a series of adventures that develop new and complementary skills. The activities in each adventure link Common Core and other academic standards to food and health in fun and engaging ways.
Seed to Supper
Seed to Supper is a six-week beginners gardening course, teaching individuals how to grow their own fruits and vegetables, build backyard gardens, and sustain their harvest. More than eighty individuals have graduated from Seed-to-Supper since it began in 2015 and many go on to be permanent community gardeners at the Camden Street Learning Garden.
Seed to Supper: A Beginner Guide to Low-Cost Vegetable Gardening pdf
Sprout Scouts Online Adventures
A virtual presentation of the FoodCorps’ Sprout Scouts program for students that’s entirely online! It’s self-paced, too.
Follow the journey of Sprout Scout Leader Allison, her sidekick Maizey, and her alter ego Al, preparing, caretaking, and harvesting from a garden, encouraging you to get your own hands dirty in the process! Each episode teaches a new skill, with snacks to make, and crafts to do all along the way.
Here’s a look at what’s in store on Sprout Scouts Online Adventures!
Supporting Partners
