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IngredientsHarpswell Coastal Academy
Old Harpswell School HouseTwo Coves Farm
• 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.
The School House Café
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
• 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
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
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.
• 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
• 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
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
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