TEST Community Grants

2014-2015 Funded Mini-Grants

farm market cafe

Farm Market Cafe, LLC has been a partner working on SHIP initiatives since 2014.

  • Through a grant from Partners in Healthy Living, Farm Market Café is providing trainings for the general public on food preservation and partnering with the University of Minnesota Extension’s SNAP-Ed program on classes about Eating Well In-Season. These classes began on November 18 and continue throughout 2015. These classes increase access and consumption of healthy foods.
Cambridge Isanti School Giving Garden

Cambridge-Isanti High School has been a partner working on SHIP initiatives since 2014.

• The Cambridge-Isanti High School’s Giving Garden since its creation has  donated 1,000 pounds of food to the local food shelf, WIC and the High School’s Family & Consumer Science Department (“FACS”).  The Giving Garden’s partners include SACS, the Lions Club, Cambridge-Isanti FACS, Summer Special Education, Isanti Special Education and Isanti County Public Health.

Isanti County has been a partner working on SHIP initiatives since 2013.

  • Isanti County is currently developing a Trail and Master Plan.

In 2018, the City of Isle began work on a comprehensive plan.