Love Your Veggies

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Winning School	Highlights of this proposed program include:
Agua Fria Elementary School (Santa Fe, New Mexico)	Will allow students the opportunity to work with The Community Farm, a non-profit organization, to grow their own fresh, organic produce.
West Bendle Elementary School (Burton, Michigan)	Will help students develop healthy eating habits by providing samples of a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, working in their raised-bed garden and learning to cook using fresh produce.
Hillside Elementary School (San Leandro, California)	Will work with educators to use the existing garden as an outdoor classroom and to implement a healthy snack regimen.
Veterans Park Academy for Arts (Lehigh Acres, Florida)	Will involve students by having them grow and maintain a vegetable garden, take weekly nutrition classes and learn to use fresh fruits and veggies in the kitchen.
Northport School District 211 (Northport, Washington)	Will provide students hands-on experience from planting seeds all the way through to consuming fresh produce.
PS 6 West Farms School (New York, New York)	Will expose students to unique fruits and vegetables by incorporating them into a new, healthy menu item each week.
Chappell Elementary School (Green Bay, Wisconsin)	Will grant students access to a fresh salad bar in the lunchroom and provide a fresh fruit or vegetable snack daily.
Carson School (Cincinnati, Ohio)	Will educate students with nutrition lessons and engage them in an after-school program that will create excitement about vegetables and encourage best nutrition practices.
John C. Martinez Elementary School (Parlier, California)	Will allow the students to learn about and taste test a new fruit or vegetable every month.
Shonto Preparatory School (Shonto, Arizona)	Will use existing garden and greenhouse to grow vegetables and allow access to fresh produce year round.
TWITTER GRANT St. Lawrence Catholic Church & School (Indianapolis, Indiana)	Will enlist the help of high school alumni to help the preschool program build a vegetable garden that they will care for through the summer.