Through exciting school programs, Project Farm Hands educates children about our food system and the realities of hunger. Children learn how food is grown, produced, and distributed while engaged with helping feed the poor. The Steer Project encourages schools and organizations to purchase steers or hogs from area farmers and donate the meat to local food kitchens.
Grow a Row for the Hungry encourages gardeners of all kinds to plant extra vegetables and donate them to local food kitchens and pantries that provide food to those in need.
WormWorks project began in 1997. Through a grant from the USCCB, children keep wormboxes in their classroom. Feeding the worms appropriate food and paper wastes, student learn conservation, math, and science skills. Their efforts become a hunger fighting program when they plant vegetable seeds with the vermicompost from their boxes and turn the emerging seedlings and plants over to the ToledoGROWs program of the Toledo Botanical Gardens. ToledoGROWs, initially developed by the Rural Life Office of Catholic Charities, oversees 48 gardens in the Central City of Toledo where adults and children grow their own food and supplement their meals with fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables.
Educators find the hands-on workshop Eating Pizza can be an Act of Justice popular with older students. This program instructs on social justice issues surrounding food production and distribution while the students prepare, cook, and eat the pizzas.
For more information on incorporating social justice issues into the classroom,contact Project Farm Hands. |
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