Blog posts categorized with FoodPrints

We are here as an established partner organization that can be a key part of the pandemic recovery puzzle - with programming that helps students heal, increase their social connections, and participate in hands-on learning that reinforces academic content. Our model provides a feasible, evidence-based approach to addressing achievement and opportunity gaps that were only exacerbated by the pandemic. 

One investment the Nutrition Equity Amendment Act proposes to make is $3.5 million per year to support access to experiential food education for elementary school students through OSSE. We endorse this priority of the amendment but offer feedback on the funding distribution model.

We believe that engaging students outdoors, digging in the soil and connecting with nature, is so important after a year of extended screen time and social isolation. This past winter and spring, Tyler Elementary has been on the forefront of providing outdoor education in partnership with FoodPrints.

As I reflect on this year, I think about how being a college freshman is already difficult, and then you add an entire pandemic on top of it… it has been crazy! Despite the many challenges, I managed to get through the year, and something that helped me power through each week was my internship with FRESHFARM FoodPrints.

Imagine popping outside your front door, and waiting for you there is a bag full of fresh produce that you will use to have fun cooking and eating with your friends and family. Well, for students at five D.C. Elementary Schools, they don’t have to use their imaginations… this is FoodPrints!

FoodPrints is the real deal. They know what they're doing and they do it with excellence. I wish they could be in every school in the District and every school in the country!

Testimony to DC Council to advocate for partnership models to support outdoor education models to as part of COVID recovery at DC public elementary schools in COVID recovery budgets - and to establish a system for recurring funding in the city budget to support food, garden and environmental education programs.

ROI for FoodPrints’ Comprehensive Food Education Program makes connections between DC policy, national research, and FoodPrints evidence.