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Every once in a while we like to feature inspirational Farm to School work from around the state. Patricia DiPasquale, Paraprofessional for Somerville Public School, recently visited the Life Skills class at Haverhill High School. Below she shares her observations. Students in the Life Skills class at Haverhill High School are now learning more about how their food gets from the farm to their table. Handicapped accessible garden bed This year Nancy Burke, one of the paraprofessionals working with Haverhill High’s Life Skills students, received funding from a  Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) Farm to School grant. Through the grant, the Life Skills students now have a school garden where they can grow their own vegetables, harvest them, and cook delicious recipes in their classroom.   Using a plot of land outside that was covered with weeds, Burke helped to create a handicapped accessible garden for her students to use. There is a handicapped ram...

In the news

Some of our partners were recently featured in the news for all of their amazing Urban Agriculture work! Groundwork Somerville was featured on  Somerville Neighborhood News  in a piece on city kids becoming community farms. The City of Somerville was featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine . Click the link or the images to read the full article. The Somerville Farm to School Project is proud to be working with both of these amazing groups.