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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.

2024 awardees

Thirteen Georgia school districts were awarded a total of $60,000 to support projects that create and share equity-centered farm-to-school best practices.

  • Baldwin County School District

  • Bibb County School District

  • Bulloch County Schools

  • Dodge County Schools

  • Dougherty County School System

  • Fannin County School District

  • Gwinnett County School District

  • Haralson County School District

  • Jones County School System

  • Monroe County Schools

  • Polk School District

  • Rockdale County Public Schools

  • Seminole County Public Schools

In partnership with the Big Green Jumpstart Grant in SY 2023-2024, we collectively invested over $120,000 into 24 different school districts around the state. Read more about the collaboration here.

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.

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.

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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