JAMESTOWN – Students at five area schools will soon be eating locally grown food, grown literally in their own backyards. Love, Ring and Bush Elementary Schools, along with Washington Middle School and Jamestown High School were recently each awarded a $1,000 mini-grant from Chautauqua County Health Network’s Creating Healthy Places program. The grant money will be used to develop vegetable gardens at each school.
Applications for the grant were sent out to area schools. Of the five schools that completed the application, all five received grants.
This is the first mini-grant that the Creating Healthy Places program has done, although they are looking to expand with future programs. The program is involved in a variety of projects, including Safe Routes to School, City of Jamestown Pedestrian Bicycle Plan and Farm to School.
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