Fwd: 222 $500 Gardening for Grades School Garden Mini-Grants Available Now!
Jasmine Samar Angelini-Knoll
From: Rainka, Katie <Katie....@fldoe.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:44 AM
Subject: 222 $500 Gardening for Grades School Garden Mini-Grants Available Now!
To: "Rainka, Katie" <Katie....@fldoe.org>
Cc: "Detscher, Penny" <Penny.D...@fldoe.org>, "Smith, Allie" <Allie...@fldoe.org>, "Gaskalla,Lisa B" <gask...@ufl.edu>, "Miles, Linda" <Linda...@fldoe.org>
222 $500 Gardening for Grades School Garden Mini-Grants Available Now!
Florida Agriculture in the Classroom is offering a new grants program to help educate Florida’s students about the importance of agriculture. The program will provide 222 $500 mini-grants that must go toward creating or improving a school garden that grows Florida fruits and vegetables. Certified, general education Florida teachers and agriscience teachers engaged in classroom instruction at the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade level are eligible. The grants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Proposals can be submitted through the Florida Agriculture in the Classroom website (www.flagintheclassroom.com) beginning Sept. 1 until the grant funds are depleted. Teachers who receive the grant will receive a copy of Florida Agriculture in the Classroom’s new resource, Gardening for Grades.
If you have any questions about the application process, please contact Florida Agriculture in the Classroom directly at 352-846-1391 or fa...@ifas.ufl.edu.
Katie E. Rainka, MPH, CHES
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Coordinator
Florida Department of Education
Food and Nutrition Management and Office of Healthy Schools
325 W. Gaines Street, Suite 1034
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Phone: (850) 245-5094