A True team effort
Quantitative
Data
Hours Worked:
23 FFA Members have worked on the farm to prepare and plant the vegetable plots. The hours dedicated to the project by these students totals 315.
10 FFA Officers have devoted three chapter meetings to collecting food for the pantry and discussing issues of food security at their meetings for a total of 10 hours.
5 FFA officers and members prepared signs, collected food items, and assisted with setting up the food pantry for a total of 23 hours.
120 Floral Design students have each invested 9 hours to working on the farm in the vegetable plots, blueberry field, and large growing field. It’s a staggering 1080 hours.
Agriculture staff have advised, supervised, and worked in conjunction with students on farm projects for a total of 72 hours. Miss Lindsey also devoted time for a webinar with National FFA for the Food For All grant.
Kaytlin S. worked with her family and two shop students to remodel and update the chicken coop. The total hours spent on the chicken coop is 23.
Sydney O. is raising the butcher pigs for the food pantry and to date has logged 7 hours.
Total hours to project to date: 1,530
Donations Collected:
At the Annual Food Drive in December 156 FFA members participated and brought in over 1,118 pounds of food.
Staff members of Norco High School have contributed $150 in cash and grocery store gift cards.
The “Ton of Love” food drive netted another 23 pounds of food donations.
Students have started harvesting vegetables on the farm: 2.5 pounds of lettuce, 14 pounds of squash, 9 pounds of artichokes, 11 pounds of broccoli, and 4 pounds of cauliflower. The plants growing on the farm has netted 40.5 pounds of food so far. We are still early in the season and anticipate more than 500 pounds of production from the farm by the end of the calendar year.
Total pounds of food collected: 1,181.5
Total amount of money donated (including the grant): $2,645.33
Assistance Provided:
FFA Officers and members delivered food to Corona Norco Settlement House. The students dropped off 5 large boxes of food including eggs, milk, cheese, flour, sugar, boxed cereal, boxed pasta, pasta sauces, canned beans, and canned vegetables. We do not know how many people were assisted by our donation to the Settlement House.
FFA Officers and members delivered food to the Corona Norco Rescue Mission. Items dropped off included milk, eggs, cheese, fresh lettuce, pasta, flour, sugar, and boxed cereal. Approximately 23 people live at the rescue mission.
The Norco FFA also adopted families during the holidays and provided them with food and gift cards. Our first family was a family of seven and the other family was a family of five. We were able to go and drop off the food and gift cards to the families with the students.
Several students have used the food pantry over long weekends and over the holiday breaks. We’ve been able to assist 18 NHS students/families with donations.
Number of people assisted: 53
Qualitative Data
Hours Worked:
23 FFA Members have worked on the farm to prepare and plant the vegetable plots. The hours dedicated to the project by these students totals 315.
10 FFA Officers have devoted three chapter meetings to collecting food for the pantry and discussing issues of food security at their meetings for a total of 10 hours.
5 FFA officers and members prepared signs, collected food items, and assisted with setting up the food pantry for a total of 23 hours.
120 Floral Design students have each invested 9 hours to working on the farm in the vegetable plots, blueberry field, and large growing field. It’s a staggering 1080 hours.
Agriculture staff have advised, supervised, and worked in conjunction with students on farm projects for a total of 72 hours. Miss Lindsey also devoted time for a webinar with National FFA for the Food For All grant.
Kaytlin S. worked with her family and two shop students to remodel and update the chicken coop. The total hours spent on the chicken coop is 23.
Sydney O. is raising the butcher pigs for the food pantry and to date has logged 7 hours.
Total hours to project to date: 1,530
Donations Collected:
At the Annual Food Drive in December 156 FFA members participated and brought in over 1,118 pounds of food.
Staff members of Norco High School have contributed $150 in cash and grocery store gift cards.
The “Ton of Love” food drive netted another 23 pounds of food donations.
Students have started harvesting vegetables on the farm: 2.5 pounds of lettuce, 14 pounds of squash, 9 pounds of artichokes, 11 pounds of broccoli, and 4 pounds of cauliflower. The plants growing on the farm has netted 40.5 pounds of food so far. We are still early in the season and anticipate more than 500 pounds of production from the farm by the end of the calendar year.
Total pounds of food collected: 1,181.5
Total amount of money donated (including the grant): $2,645.33
Assistance Provided:
FFA Officers and members delivered food to Corona Norco Settlement House. The students dropped off 5 large boxes of food including eggs, milk, cheese, flour, sugar, boxed cereal, boxed pasta, pasta sauces, canned beans, and canned vegetables. We do not know how many people were assisted by our donation to the Settlement House.
FFA Officers and members delivered food to the Corona Norco Rescue Mission. Items dropped off included milk, eggs, cheese, fresh lettuce, pasta, flour, sugar, and boxed cereal. Approximately 23 people live at the rescue mission.
The Norco FFA also adopted families during the holidays and provided them with food and gift cards. Our first family was a family of seven and the other family was a family of five. We were able to go and drop off the food and gift cards to the families with the students.
Several students have used the food pantry over long weekends and over the holiday breaks. We’ve been able to assist 18 NHS students/families with donations.
Number of people assisted: 53
Qualitative Data
- Agriculture
students have felt open to ask for assistance as needed. This has helped to increase the “family
feeling” of the Agriculture Department.
- Faculty
and staff are appreciative of the program and support the program through food
donations, cash donations, and student referrals.
- The
food pantry program has allowed Norco High School to provide another layer of
support for students who may be struggling.
- The
poster campaign by the FFA officers has increased awareness about food
insecurity with students at Norco High.
- FFA
members have learned about food insecurity at FFA Chapter meetings because the
FFA Officers have conducted two food drives and given two presentations about
the food pantry.