USDA Farm To School Grant, 2016-2017
The NODC was awarded $72,000 from the USDA to support efforts in the Port Townsend School District to serve healthy, whole and local foods to students.
Funding was used to purchase kitchen equipment to process whole fruits and vegetables, train kitchen staff to cook with whole foods and upgrade garden tools.
Additional school staff time was devoted to providing "edible education" in elementary classrooms. In partnership with WSU.
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Strait ERN is a collaborative network working toward a healthy and resilient ecosystem that sustains all life and human wellbeing on the North Olympic Peninsula and along the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
NODC partnered with PNNL and regional stakeholders, including local governments, tribal communities, public utilities, and economic development agencies, on an Energy Futures Conference for the North Olympic Peninsula.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will explore the feasibility of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) to increase grid resilience on the North Olympic Peninsula. As a partner on the project, NODC will build on previous regional planning processes for climate change adaptation, natural disaster resilience and energy to develop and lead a multi-criteria decision-making approach to engage communities and Tribes across the Peninsula in the project to identify needs and define important project metrics.
