- December 16, 2025
The Matanzas High School FFA chapter has been awarded $2,352 as part of the inaugural FFA: Food For All program.
The nationwide program provides grant money to local FFA chapters to support yearlong service-learning projects focused on developing and implementing sustainable hunger relief projects.
The Matanzas FFA plans to help fight hunger by growing food in the community garden at the school, and donating it. The goal of the service-learning project is to supply Flagler County food banks with fresh produce.
The FFA students at the school build, grow and raise the produce, including tilapia raised in the aquaculture systems.
The program has supplied 50 pounds of produce this year; the goal is to produce 250 pounds by November.
The Matanzas garden is a secondar site to the Department of Juvenile Justice Community Garden, in Bunnell, led by Cheryl Massaro and the Flagler County Master Gardeners.
The Food For All grant program is administered by the National FFA Organization, with funding provided by Farmers Feeding the World and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The program provided $330,000 to FFA chapters in 41 states this year.
