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Ingredients Harpswell Coastal Academy Old Harpswell School House Two Coves Farm

Ingredients Harpswell Coastal Academy Old Harpswell School House Two Coves Farm. The School House Café . Community Supported Restaturant serving simple, locally sourced breakfast and lunches, L3C structure functions as a gathering spot for the community

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Ingredients Harpswell Coastal Academy Old Harpswell School House Two Coves Farm

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  1. IngredientsHarpswell Coastal Academy Old Harpswell School House Two Coves Farm

  2. The School House Café • Community Supported Restaturant serving simple, locally sourced breakfast and lunches, L3C structure • functions as a gathering spot for the community • provides healthy lunch, breakfast, and snacks to HCA • entrepreneurship incubator and internship site for HCA • provides part-time jobs/flexible workforce for the Café.

  3. Maine Farmland Trust “Forever Farm” operated by Joe and Laura Grady along with their three children, Yvette, Muriel, and little Joe. • 88 acres of forest and pasture • focus on grass production and environmental sustainability. • portable infrastructure and fencing to move animals in a managed grazing system • healthy and happy animals on the most vibrant and diverse pastures • CSA for beef, pork, lamb, poultry and eggs • Farm/food systems partner for Harpswell Coastal Academy

  4. Our Classrooms Maine’s shorelines, working waterfronts, forests, and farms. Our Partners Maine’s educators, entrepreneurs, and community organizations. Our Promise Citizen-scholars dedicated to Maine’s future. • Public charter school - open to all students by lottery • Initiated by Town citizens concerned with disengaged youth • Re-purposes recently closed West Harpswell Elementary School • Potential Fiscal Agent for L3C

  5. Our Classrooms Maine’s shorelines, working waterfronts, forests, and farms. Our Partners Maine’s educators, entrepreneurs, and community organizations. Our Promise Citizen-scholars dedicated to Maine’s future. • Place-based, project-based curriculum • Small by design, no students lost in the crowd • Student work/internship/service requirement • Curriculum engages and anchors the community in preserving its coastal heritage

  6. One-room school house serving Harpswell Neck up to 1950s • Located at busiest intersection in Harpswell • Seasonally profitable Café Mojo for past several years • Owner/Landlord supportive of HCA • Kitchen equipment and restaurant furnishings available

  7. Entrepeneur/Visionary/Local Food Genius • Seed/Start-up Capital • Supply Chain Partnerships (Crown O’Maine, Northern Girl, Somerset Grist Mill…) • Technical Assistance/Start-up Coach • Foundation Support/Program Related Investment

  8. Payback on Investment, Part 1 • By year Four, 280 students from age 11-19 eat two healthy, locally sourced meals each day • Replicable, research-based model for locally-sourced school nutrition program • Each year, 40 new students engaged in 7-year cycle of studying, planning, growing, processing, and serving enough food to feed themselves

  9. Payback on Investment, Part II • $200–500k in sustainable local supply chain economic development • 3-8 FTE food/farm sector jobs (with benefits) • Midcoast farms and suppliers made more viable by reliable, predictable market for portion of annual output

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