PAST MINI GRANT PROJECTS
Georgia Organics and The Georgia Department of Public Health developed the Farm to School Innovation Mini Grant Program in 2021 to incentivize and support farm to school activities as schools regrouped from pandemic-related challenges.
Although each project is unique, they all provide insights and best practices that can be replicated and applied in a variety of settings and under-resourced districts.
2023 awardees
In 2023, Georgia Organics awarded eight Georgia school districts a total of $13,500 to support projects that create and share equity-centered farm to school best practices.
Effingham County School District
Fannin County School District
Morgan County School District
Treutlen County School District
Chattahoochee Hills Charter School
2022 awardees
During the inaugural year 2021-2022 school year, Georgia Organics provided $500 each to fifteen Georgia school districts to support farm to school innovation projects.
Bartow County School District
Bleckley County School District
Brooks County School District
Harris County School District
Houston County School District
Morgan County School District
Putnam County School District
Rabun County School District
HISTORY
From 2014 through 2019, Georgia Organics, along with the Georgia Departments of Agriculture, Early Care and Learning, Education, and Public Health and UGA Extension, celebrated Georgia farm to school best practices with the Golden Radish Award.
In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we worked with our partners to redirect the funds we would have used for the Golden Radish Award ceremony directly to schools in the form of mini grants for farm to school programs. We were thrilled with the outcomes of the investment, and have now expanded this effort into an ongoing initiative of Georgia Organics: Farm to School Innovation Mini Grants.
In 2022, we passed the baton of the Golden Radish Awards to the Georgia Department of Education School Nutrition Program (GaDOE SNP), who continues to celebrate outstanding farm to school programs with the annual Georgia Farm to School Award.
Join us in taking a look back on the higlights of this incredible program and the people and projects it celebrated from 2014-2016!
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