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The student-run Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm, located on Jepson Lane, recently received a $20,000 grant from the Hamilton Family Charitable Trust. The grant will allow AgInnovation to serve a greater populous of students in the community and to finally take kids off the waiting list.
Grant helps increase capacity at student-run farm
PORTSMOUTH — The Hamilton Family Charitable Trust (HFCT) has awarded the student-run Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm a $20,000 grant to support ongoing programming at the farm. more
The farm tractor at the Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm will soon get a shed, thanks for recent grants from The Champlin Foundation and BankNewport.
Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm gets grants toward tractor shed
PORTSMOUTH — The students who run the Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm have a tractor, and now they’re one step closer to acquiring a shed for it. more
Seventh-grade Middletown student Ella Robson encounters local wildlife at Sisson Pond, adjacent to the Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm.
Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm receives $20K grant
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm has received a $20,000 grant from Rhode Island Energy and the PPL Foundation’s Empowering Communities Grant program to support programming at … more
Portsmouth schools end fiscal year with surplus of over $400K
PORTSMOUTH — The school district will have more than $400,000 to spread around for school construction projects, thanks to a surplus left over from the 2022-2023 fiscal year. Chris … more
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Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm students and BankNewport representatives celebrate the opening of the sun shading at the farm’s outdoor classroom.
In Portsmouth: A little shade for young farm workers
PORTSMOUTH — Sun shading has been installed to enhance learning at the Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm’s outdoor classroom with funding from BankNewport. The sun shading provides a safe … more
The AgInnovation Farm is a student-run program located at Cloverbud Range on Jepson Lane, Portsmouth.
Micro-clover pilot program to be planted in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH — The Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District (ERICD) recently received a grant award through the Urban and Community Conservation (UAC) Grant Initiative to model a unique … more
Margie Brennan, the school district’s K-8 science coach, meets with students inside the high tunnel at the AgInnovation Farm and goes over their tasks for that afternoon.
Portsmouth: AgInnovation Farm grows by leaps and bounds
PORTSMOUTH — When they first sank their fingers into the dirt at Cloverbud Ranch three years ago, Portsmouth Middle School students couldn’t have possibly known how quickly their garden … more
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Margie Brennan, the Portsmouth school district’s K-8 science instruction coach, is one of only nine educators in the country to receive the national Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators.
Portsmouth educator wins presidential teaching award
PORTSMOUTH — Margie Brennan, the Portsmouth school district’s K-8 science instruction coach, is in rare company. more
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Amani Helger, a fifth-grader at Portsmouth Middle School, shows off a critter she found at the Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm, which was just awarded $78,889 in grant funding from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation.
Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm wins $78,889 grant
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm Program has been awarded $78,889 in grant funding from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation (vBCF), the Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District … more
Tatum Brennan adjusts a tomato cage at the AgInnovation Farm back in 2020. (File photo)
Funding grows learning opportunities at student farm
PORTSMOUTH — BankNewport has provided funding to support a sun shade at the student-run Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm at Cloverbud Ranch off Middle Road. more
Deputy Superintendent Elizabeth Viveiros, who was principal at Melville School when the outdoor learning space was being planned and built, cuts the ribbon during a brief ceremony on Friday.
Portsmouth school celebrates opening of outdoor classroom
PORTSMOUTH — It’s almost as if Melville Elementary School knew what was coming. “We did this pre-COVID,” said Sara Churgin, manager of the Eastern Rhode Island Conservation … more
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Congressman David Cicilline (at left, wearing in tie) joins others during a celebration of the student-run Portsmouth AgInnovation Farm on Tuesday.
In Portsmouth: ‘Experiential learning at its best’
PORTSMOUTH — “Meeting called to order!” School Committee Chairwoman Emily Copeland joked as she rode in the back of a hay wagon, pulled by a tractor manned by Middle School … more
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Portsmouth school budget calls for 2.6% hike in expenditures
PORTSMOUTH — The School Committee Tuesday night unanimously approved a $42.21 million budget for fiscal year 2023 that calls for a $1.07 million increase in expenditures — a … more
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Aurelius Brockman, a sixth-grader at Portsmouth Middle School, briefly pauses from his task of moving sprinklers around a student garden at Cloverbud Ranch to get some welcome relief from the stifling heat morning Monday.
In Portsmouth: A farm of their own
PORTSMOUTH — While school buildings were closed and learning moved online, a group of 25 children — some as young as 10 — were working on more than just their ABCs. These … more
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