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Job Posting: Food Corps Educators with Grow Education 24-25 Season<\/a><\/h2>
March 20, 2024<\/div>
Join our Team! We are looking for Five Food Corps Educators with Grow Education!<\/div>
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What’s Growing On? January 2024 News from Grow Education<\/a><\/h2>
January 18, 2024<\/div>
Winter presentations have been a part of Grow Education's farm to School program for many years now, bringing local farmers into the classroom to discuss food production, environmental\u00a0stewardship, and science.\u00a0<\/div>
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What’s Growing On? November 2023 News from Grow Education<\/a><\/h2>
November 20, 2023<\/div>
Happy fall! Our Grow Education farm-to-school program has expanded to new school districts, our team is growing, and we continue to build meaningful partnerships across the Southcoast to connect students and teachers to our food system.<\/div>
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What’s Growing On? May 2023 News from Grow Education<\/a><\/h2>
May 23, 2023<\/div>
After several years of planning and building, and the hard work of many partners, every elementary school in New Bedford and Westport is now benefiting from an on-campus garden!<\/div>
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Springtime Cleanup scheduled for New Bedford Elementary School\u2019s Gardens<\/a><\/h2>
April 12, 2023<\/div>
Mass. Farm to School (FTS) Brings Student & Community Engagement Strategies to the New Bedford Public School System on Thurs. 4\/13\/2023 from 3:30pm \u2013 5pm.<\/div>
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Marion Institute’s Grow Education Program selected as beneficiary for Stop & Shop’s Bloomin’ 4 Good Program<\/a><\/h2>
March 31, 2023<\/div>
Marion Institute's Grow Education Program has been selected as the beneficiary of the @StopandShop Bloomin\u2019 4 Good Program! Each time a $10.99 bouquet in the sleeve marked \u201cBloomin\u2019 4 Good\u201d is purchased at the Stop & Shop at Wareham, MA during the month of April we will receive a $1 donation.<\/div>
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What’s Growing On? March 2023 News from Grow Education<\/a><\/h2>
March 22, 2023<\/div>
Our FoodCorps members designed a lesson to connect to the third-grade history curriculum around the Boston Tea Party which was supported by an herbal tea lesson where students were able to pick and choose the loose-leaf herbs of their choice to make their own cup of tea. <\/div>
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Shalynn Brooks, FoodCorps service member, Grow Education Program, highlighted on Today.com for Soul Food lesson\/Black History Month<\/a><\/h2>
February 17, 2023<\/div>
We are so proud of Shay Brooks, one of our FoodCorps service members in the Grow Education Program, for being interviewed on Today.com for her Soul Food lesson for Black History Month!<\/div>
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What’s Growing On? January 2023 News from Grow Education<\/a><\/h2>
January 18, 2023<\/div>
Third graders at Brooks Elementary School in New Bedford participated in a tea party this past week. The lesson was created and facilitated by one of Marion Institute\u2019s FoodCorps members, Olivia Rother, to integrate with curriculum being taught in their social studies class.<\/div>
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MI’s Grow Education Program Expands: Westport educators head to class for state’s Farm to School Institute – southcoasttoday.com – 11\/3\/2022 –<\/a><\/h2>
November 3, 2022<\/div>
Marion Institute's Grow Education Program expands: Westport educators head to class for state's Farm to School Institute.<\/div>
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