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