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USDA BEST PRACTICE AWARD - Southeast Region Garden Curriculum Workshop
Promoting a Healthy School Environment Building on the successful school garden initiative District-wide to cross-pollinate academics and school
gardens, the School Food Service Department offered a Garden Curriculum Workshop on Saturday, November
This is an iniative from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2016, to ensure consistent
practices District-wide, a cross functional team containing at least one member from each department that 10, 2018. Seventy-five (75) teachers attended the event. The intention and focus of the educational day was
is impacting by School Gardens was created. This team demonstrates how sharing expertise, incomporating to encourage a new way of learning by “Bringing the Classroom into the Garden.” This program allowed
different perspectives and working together, can streamline processes in a way that inspires education while teachers to earn up to 4 recertification points by an ending and implementing what they learned. Teachers
mainting safe, consistent practices. had the opportunity to attend two different sessions to combine their core curriculum knowledge in Math,
Science, and English Language Arts and Fine Arts with relating to school gardens. All sessions were delivered
Garden Collaboration Team members are representatives from the departments below: by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) – Family Nutrition Team.
Teachers received plenty of resources to bring back to school to implement after the 2018 Winter Break. In
• Building Code Services FY19 there was a total of 144 campuses with school gardens in the District.
• Environmental and Conservation Services
• Facility Management
• Federal and State Programs
• Legal Services
• Purchasing
• Risk and Benefits Management
• Safe Schools
• Support Services (Health Services)
• School Food Service
The USDA Best Practice Award was presented at the Florida Department of Agriculture Child Nutrition
Directors’ Conference in Orlando in April 2019 to the District’s School Food Service Department. The award
was received for the creation and oversight of the District’s Garden Collaboration Team as well as the
Garden Guide, and the Garden of Dreams. At the time, in addition to recognizing the efforts of the Garden School
Collaboration Team, the moderator specifically references the meaningfulness of the Omni Middle School’s
Garden of Dreams.

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