PROJECT LOCALIZE

REPORT
August 2018

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Program Overview
• Project Localize in Omaha is an educational program
facilitated by No More Empty Pots in collaboration with
Lexicon of Sustainability that helps classrooms identify
and promote sustainable economic, cultural and social
progress in their communities. Students learn about
their own local food system. The students create
information artworks illustrating what sustainability looks
like in their backyards; and share their findings with their
communities.
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PROJECT LOCALIZE
SERVED A TOTAL OF 555
STUDENTS AND
EDUCATORS DURING
THE GRANT PERIOD
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Culinary Activities Elicited the Most Responses from
Harrison Students in Both Favorite and Least Favorite
Least Favorite Most Favorite

Culinary

Farm Visits

Planting

Art

Grow Tower

45 Respondents
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Of the Culinary Categories, Cooking was Harrison
Students’ Favorite Activity
Least Favorite Most Favorite
4 Cooking 11

2 Food 8

1 Flatbread 6

6 Eggs 4

1 Hummus 4

12 Rhubarb
1
Juice
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60% of Harrison Students Loved Project Localize

Loved it! It was okay

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82% of Fontenelle Students Loved Project Localize

Loved it! It was okay

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73% of the Students Surveyed Loved Project Localize

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78% of Harrison Students Agree or Strongly Agree
they would Recommend Project Localize to a Friend

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82% of Harrison Students Affirmed that they Learned about
Where Food Comes from

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 Harrison Student’s
Most Significant
Changes
from Project Localize

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Students Experienced a Variety of Changes from
Project Localize
New Goals and Aspirations

Learned Something New

Unique Changes

Attitude Changes

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18 Students’ Most Significant Change
Involved Developing New Goals and
Aspirations
“I want to try to grow
fruit and vegetables.”
“To learn more and go to
markets.” *
“I think I'm going to plant a
garden of my own.”
“Actually cooking my
food.”
“I wanna try to grow spear-
mints on a grow tower.”*
“I'm going to natural
foods now.”*
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“One day I will do a picture.”
“I will make my self a
garden.”*
“Because the cook made
me want to cook bread and
hummus.”*
“I want to make a garden.”
“I'm going to plant things.”
“I want to have more
vegetables.”*
*Slightly edited for spelling and grammar
“I’ll start planting stuff on my own.”
“I wanna try to make more collages.”
“I want to grow foods at my house.”
“I want to plant fruits and vegetables
in our garden.”*
“Build a garden so people have
food.”
“I want to grow plants even more
because of the grow tower.”
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8 Students’ Most Significant Change was
Learning Something New
“That plants need sunlight and other things to grow. And I should start planting
plant this month because that was what I was going to do.”
“When we went to the trip to the “I changed because I learned more
common goods farms I learned about the grow tower.”*
about nature.”
“They helped me do different experiences
“I learned more about food.” of it.”

“Plants and animals comes in “There lots of plants and you can
different sizes.” make humus at home.”

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 Attitude and Unique Changes Were
Had by Harrison Students
“My change was when it
was getting so easy and
those eggs were just good
to eat and the portrait was
so pretty.”*
“Other people should
get organic chickens.”
“It changed to do art work to
give art to my family.”*
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“I will always try things
and don't just look at it
and say I don't like it.”
“Explore things in new
places and be very happy
in your life.”*
“Planting is fun for me
even more than before.”
“Planting some plants.”
* Slightly edited for grammar and spelling
“Planting goods”
“Trying new stuff
is important.”
“They had fun with us
and I had fun with
their cooking and
tasting the eggs. And
I like growing my
vegetables and they
had gotten bigger.”*
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Words and Ideas Learned by
Harrison Students

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 Harrison Students’
Drawings

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 Fontenelle Students’
Drawings

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