Our Story
Celebrating 20 years of planting seeds for a lifetime of healthy eating through garden, kitchen, and farm education.
Cornucopia Project is growing edible gardens at schools, cooking healthy food with children, and farming to feed our community. We place high school students in farm and restaurant internships and show students how to grow thousands of pounds of vegetables during field trips on our Educational Farm in Peterborough, NH.
Our organically-grown produce is served in restaurants and school cafeterias, and is shared through our CSA, community suppers, events, and food pantries. 15% of produce grown at the farm is donated to community food services.
With a new home base and more opportunities than ever, Cornucopia Project is cultivating a healthier future for children across the region.
When you make a donation, you're helping children learn about where their food comes from, understand environmental responsibility, gain practical skills to grow and prepare nutritious food, and spend more time outside.
Every dollar counts, and your gift during NH Gives will be matched or even tripled!
How Your Donation Makes a Difference
Annual Stats
- Serving 31 Schools across New Hampshire
- Teaching 682 elementary school children in school gardens
- Cooking with 847 young chefs
- Providing paid training for 29 High Schoolers at the Educational Farm
- Training 35 School Teachers in farm to table curriculum and program management
We put your dollars to work in the community!
- We partner with organizations throughout the state to advance garden and culinary youth education and community health.
- We serve over 3000 youth and about 800 adults each year.
- Cornucopia Project is the Monadnock Farm To School Network leader.
- We have a 20 year history of growing the nutritional health of the community.
- Our programs improve youth nutrition and environmental awareness.
Our Programs
Culinary Programs: cooking classes and kits for children and families, featuring local ingredients and local chefs; in the classroom, in the garden, on the farm, and at home.
School Gardening: leading elementary schools in three districts through healthy vegetable growing and tasting during spring and fall in school gardens; helping schools build and repair learning gardens; the traveling hydroponic tower program; and our turn-key classroom garden kits.
High School Internships: students earn credit while working and learning on our farm and in our partner restaurants; leading to employment and enabling unique learning experiences.
Student Farmers: high school students become farm employees and assume leading roles on the Educational Farm. Student Farmers host field trips, run a Customer Supported Agriculture (CSA) produce business, hold annual spring seedling sales, grow over ten thousand pounds of produce.
Native Pollinator Plants Project: helping native pollinator and beneficial insects through a project with Schoolyard Habitat/N.H. Fish and Wildlife. Student Farmers are growing hundreds of native plant species for local gardens and fields while creating a pollinator oasis on the farm. We are completing the development of our demonstration native pollinator habitat where high school classes and community members can explore what a beneficial landscape is and learn how to create their own.
Our Garden Sites: 10 managed school gardens and a 2 acre farm with three 96' growing tunnels and outdoor field spaces.
Our Team: 8 Staff, 12 Work-study Employees, 11 Board Members, 90 Volunteers
Learn more by visiting: CornucopiaProject.org