Maine FoodCorps
University of Maine Cooperative Extension is one of ten inaugural host sites for the exciting new national program FoodCorps, whose mission is to combat childhood obesity through school gardens, nutrition education, and healthy food access. FoodCorps recruits young leaders for a year of public service to build school gardens and get fresh, local food into schools, while also giving these members the skills to be our next generation of farmers and public health leaders.
Our Maine FoodCorps team of six members will be joining us for their year of service on August 22nd, 2011. Members will be working on a variety of related projects with schools in their service site areas such as:
- building and tending school gardens,
- conducting cooking and gardening programs with students,
- assisting school nutrition staff with local food procurement, and
- providing educational outreach related to agriculture, health, and nutrition.
UMaine Extension is working with the following community partners to provide service sites for FoodCorps members. These partners have a history of working together to build the Farm to School movement in Maine.
- Cultivating Community, Cumberland County
- Healthy Acadia and Washington County: One Community
- Healthy Communities of the Capital Area, Kennebec County and Bowdoinhan Community School
- Healthy Oxford Hills, Oxford County
- Rippling Waters Organic Farm, York County
- St. Mary’s Nutrition Center, Androscoggin County
For more information about Maine FoodCorps, contact our Host Site Supervisor for the Maine FoodCorps Team:
Ellie Libby, Extension Educator
University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Knox & Lincoln Counties
377 Manktown Road, Waldoboro, ME 04572
Phone: 207-832-0343 x 118 Fax: 207-832-0377, ellen.libby@maine.edu
FoodCorps is a national school garden and Farm to School service program.
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