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Healthy
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Health City Youth Initiative - Fact Sheet
October 6, 2009 Joint Press Release
Fall 2009
Healthy City Newsletter
Aerial map showing future
site for the
Healthy City Youth Farm
Burlington School
Food Project
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Introducing
... the Healthy City Youth Initiative
a hands-on youth farm and garden program
to serve the Burlington School District
 On
November 3, 2009, Friends of Burlington Gardens welcomed our newest
staff person, Jenn
McGowan, to serve as full time program director for the new Healthy
City Youth
Initiative (HCYI). Jenn comes to FBG after seven years of service with
the Intervale Center as director of the Healthy City Youth Farm.
In her new role with FBG, Jenn will oversee
the creation of a new site for the Healthy City Youth Farm at Hunt
Middle
School in Burlington’s New North End. The Youth Farm plan includes
multiple raised beds where Burlington students and community volunteers
can work side-by-side growing fresh organic produce for summer lunch
programs and fall salad bars.
As FBG's program director,
Jenn
will also facilitate the Burlington School Garden Council, which
supports food gardening efforts at six Burlington elementary schools,
two middle schools, and Burlington High School.
The Healthy City Youth Initiative and
Healthy City Youth Farm are made possible through a $25,000 bridge
grant awarded to Friends of Burlington Gardens by the A.D. Henderson
Foundation, and a $20,000 two year grant awarded by the Canaday Family
Charitable Trust. Additional funders and business sponsors will be
announced as support is received. Program planning and implementation
will begin early in 2010.
Friends of Burlington Gardens and the Intervale Center feel that the
transition represents a unique opportunity to broaden current farm to
school programming to impact more students at more schools over more
grade levels. Both organizations agree
that the new growth will be best facilitated by taking the strong
foundations of the Healthy
City
program in the Intervale and combining them with Friends of Burlington
Gardens long history in working throughout the City and directly at
schools in promoting gardening and food production.
Please click the link to learn more about the new Healthy City Youth Initiative and plans
for 2010.
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Gardens & the
Vermont Community
Garden Network
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PO Box 4504
Burlington,
Vermont
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