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RHS Students grow food for food pantry over summer

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Some of the Ragsdale High School students who participated in the Classroom to Food Pantry Pipeline during the school year have volunteered to continue growing food over the summer delivering what they harvest to Renaissance Road Church’s Food Bank.

The students took home one of the portable gardens from class and were offered a “sharecropping” option where they can give half the micro greens to the food bank and keep the rest.  The participating students elected to give all the food grown to the food bank every four weeks until school returned.

Ragsdale Students Harvest Greens for Food Bank

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On Friday, May 6th, students in the 1st Block Analytics Class at Ragsdale High cut, washed, and bagged fresh micro greens for delivery and distribution at Renaissance Church’s Food Bank.

Once done with the harvest, students recorded the number of bags made. They will use this information to calculate how many Portable Gardens are needed to meet the total weekly demand of the Food Bank.

We continue to grow the Ragsdale-Renaissance Church Pipeline thanks in part to the Greater High Point Food Alliance.

MEDIA: JAMESTOWN NEWS HIGHLIGHTS FOOD BIKE AT RAGSDALE HS

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On Wednesday, April 6th, Jamestown News did a story on ReBuildUp’s Food Bike program at Ragsdale High School featuring students playing a nutritional card game, growing food in class to be delivered to nearby Renaissance Church’s Food Bank, along with a contest for the best home grown bottle lettuce.  This was made possible by sponsor Michael Robinson Accounting along with the aid of the Greater High Point Food Alliance to line up the Food Bank.

Click Here for the full article.

Food Bike Winners at Ragsdale High School

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On Friday, March 18th, the top three players of ReBuildUp’s new Food Bike nutrition game were awarded with cash prizes sponsored by Michael Robinson Accounting.

This concludes the Winter 2016 eight week program at Ragsdale High School with students playing several rounds of the Food Bike card game along with growing their own lettuce bottles at home to win the contest.

Congratulations to Reina, Emily, and Cameron!