Goals of the Mini-Grant Program

The mini-grant program aims to fund agriculture-related education projects that:

• Connect students to the local and sustainable food movement

• Provide students with hands-on experience of good agricultural practices including in the school garden

• Develop instructional materials and methods for teaching science through the lens of agriculture

• Enable students to see connections between agricultural practices and human health, nutrition, environment, community, and sustainability

• Integrate sustainable agricultural literacy into science, math, social studies, language and literature, and arts curricula

• Promote an understanding of the challenges faced by present-day farmers

• Introduce ideas in creative ways that promote agricultural literacy both inside the classroom and beyond it

• Increase knowledge and understanding of the contributions of agriculture in Massachusetts to the people of the state, the nation, and the world