Posts by Kendyll Romine
Hold the flavor: Georgia students eating fewer school lunches
By The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Since 2010, the percentage of Gwinnett County public school students who eat school lunch regularly declined from 81 to 69 percent. School board member Louise Radloff…
Read MoreA group of third, fourth and fifth-grade students gather to listen for frogs
CPF grantee Pine Valley Elementary School’s Frog Watch USA group was featured in AZA.org. Excerpt from article: It was a balmy evening in March when roughly 75 people—most of them…
Read More25th Anniversary Benefit Gala Recap
View photos from the spectacular night. Videos: HRH Prince Charles – Exemplar Award (accepting by video) Tony Juniper – accepting the Exemplar Award on behalf of HRH Prince Charles…
Read MoreFormer CPF FoodCorps Service Member Lauren Ladov, Featured in National Geographic
Water and Life Lessons Posted: December 13 By National Geographic Online Dear Educators, Let’s Talk Water Have you and your students experimented with sprouting seeds in the classroom? Set up two…
Read MoreOur very own Ain Chike is feature in the New York Times!
An Urban Gardener Who Grew Up to Be a Planeteer Posted: November 19 By The New York Times – Patrica R. Olsen Ain Chiké, 34, is an operations manager at the…
Read MoreResearch garden opens at Richmond Hill Middle School
By bryancountynews.com Grant Type: ecoSTEM The first stage of an agricultural research garden on the Richmond Hill Middle School campus is nearing completion and was marked by a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday…
Read MoreAppalachian Forest Heritage Area, Inc
Grantee: Appalachian Forest Heritage Area, Inc. – Elkins, West Virginia Project Title: Watershed awareness through youth snorkeling events on the Monongahela Nati Description: Schools in rural areas lack strong connections with…
Read MoreDole packaged foods joins ShopRite and the Captain Planet Foundation to celebrate project learning garden at Battle Hill elementary school in Union, N.J.
New York and New Jersey Schools Team up with the Captain Planet Foundation to Inaugurate Project Learning Gardens Posted: October 6 By Outlook-12 UNION, N.J. — Union Assistant Superintendent of Schools Annie…
Read MoreRECAP: 2016 Summer Garden Management
What a successful summer! 3 interns and 5 FoodCorps service members In total, they visited 50 different schools 227 separate times Food harvested went to various people and groups Atlanta Community…
Read MoreRecap: 2015 – 2016 FoodCorps year with Project Learning Garden schools
2015 -2016 FoodCorps Recap: 5 service members 14 schools 28,818 student activities 339 pounds of produce harvested from school gardens served to students 22 taste tests 528 volunteers What the…
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