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Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP)

The Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program provides elementary school students with a free healthy fruit or, in participating schools:

2025-26 Qualifying Schools

Appleton Bilingual School, Badger, Dunlap, Edison, Franklin, Highlands, Horizons, Jefferson, Johnston, McKinley, and The Ọmọladé Academy.

FFVP is provided every day, but not during breakfast or lunch. The program features a variety of unique and sometimes new fruits and vegetables for students that they may otherwise not have had the opportunity to sample. 

The goals of this grant program are to:

  • Create healthier school environments by offering healthy choices.
  • Expand the variety of fruits and vegetables children experience.
  • Increase children’s fruit and vegetable consumption.
  • Make a difference in children’s diets to impact their current and future health.

Teachers will provide nutrition education activities in the classroom to increase students’ knowledge of the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables. 

Families can support their students’ efforts to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption in many ways. For example:

  • Take your student grocery shopping. Let your student select a new fruit or veggie to try.
  • Give your student options! Let your student choose which veggie to serve at dinner.
  • Keep fruits and vegetables where your student can see them, such as on the counter.
  • Take your student to a local farmers’ market and discover fruits and vegetables in season.
  • Be a role model! Let your child see you regularly eating fruits and veggies.