Category Archives: GROW FFA

Fighting hunger locally by farming, educating, and promoting community awareness.

A Late Harvest

Yet another late harvest. It’s been a fickle weather year, and we had a break to fit in this late harvest. Superstorm “Sandy” caused us to postpone the class trip last week, and finally it wasn’t too muddy. The students … Continue reading

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Grow FFA- Frederick News-Post Online

Grow FFA 2012 The Frederick News-Post Online

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GROW FFA planting

Today we planted more cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and onion sets. Members of the Boys and Girls Club of Frederick helped with this planting.

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Grow FFA Builds Chicken Coop

As a part of our Food For All Grant this year (Grow FFA) , our students have constructed a large chicken coop and will raise layers to produce eggs to distribute to community members in need of food. Assisting with … Continue reading

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Food For All Volunteer Schedule (tentative)

Welcome! We’ve had a couple of student committee meetings and things are off to a great start for the 2012 Food For All grant partnership. We’re moving forward quickly with facility preparation. Here’s our volunteer schedule for working at our … Continue reading

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Food For All

We’ve received a 2012 FFA: Food For All grant to support year-long service-learning projects, developing and implementing sustainable agriculture education programs and helping to fight hunger. We’ve already started working on ideas to educate and engage our community in sustainable … Continue reading

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