Jefferson Archives - Montana Rural Health Initiative

The KidsPack Program

HRDC believes nobody should go to bed hungry. The Healthy KidsPack Program strives to alleviate childhood hunger by providing nutritionally balanced, kid-friendly foods to area elementary students every Friday during the school year. Healthy KidsPack is offered and accessible to every elementary school student regardless of income. Providing this resource ensures that all kids have […]

Edible Schoolyard Project Boulder, MT

Boulder Elementary School October is farm to school month which recognizes the importance of having fresh fruits and vegetables and, in turn, supporting local farms. The aim of The Edible Schoolyard Project is to use outdoor and greenhouse agricultural gardening for the classroom and community as a means for education. In school, cross-curricular education as well as adult education can offer local […]

Montana FoodCorps & Grow Montana

Montana’s FoodCorps is a team of young leaders fighting the childhood obesity epidemic by helping K-12 schools serve more locally grown food, grow school gardens, and conduct hands-on nutrition education. The 2011-2012 team is focused on Montana’s rural communities, especially those with high levels of poverty or food insecurity. In the summer of 2006, […]