Support a Future of Healthy Kids

Our children deserve more than ultra-processed meals and rising rates of illness. They deserve real food, real knowledge, and real tools to thrive— in school and in life.

It’s not just what we grow—it’s how we grow a healthier generation.

The Foundation for Healthy Schools is on a mission to transform education and nutrition across America. We inspire parents, teachers, schools, and community leading stakeholders to help children grow their own food, understand where it comes from, and discover how it fuels their health and success.

Your support brings hands-on, science-based nutrition education and healthier learning environments to schools and communities.

Together, we’re equipping children with the knowledge, nourishment, and natural connections they need to overcome today’s physical and mental health challenges.

Tier 1:  Teacher Support Projects

We support teachers looking to introduce horticulture into classrooms and curriculum—helping students grow, taste, and learn about real food right where they learn best. We empower teachers to turn nutrition into an interactive, memorable experience.

Your tax deductible donation helps fund:
Growing supplies (seeds, media, pots, tents, lights, etc.) to actual grow systems like Tower Gardens.    Tier 1 Projects seek investment up to $2,500.

Our 3-Tier Impact Model

We offer scalable solutions for all levels of readiness, from individual classrooms to community-wide initiatives.

Tier 2: Schoolwide Support Projects

We build off Tier 1 to partner with a committed schools of educators. We help design and build teaching gardens transformed into places of curiosity, science, health, and connection.

Your tax deductible donation helps fund:

Growing supplies, equipment, materials and contracted labor to build gardens, raised growing beds, smaller scale functional greenhouses and / or weather-appropriate structures.      Tier 2 Projects seek investment up to $25,000.

Tier 3:  Urban Cultivation Hubs 

A bold vision for sustainable, city-integrated growing systems.  These protected commercial cultivation hubs connect real food access with hands-on education, collaborative research, and regional food security models.

Your tax deductible donation helps:

Fund large scale city events and develop partnerships with city, state, and federal leaders, postsecondary institutions, commercial growers, and community organizations, to bring innovate technologies with lasting impact to entire regions.     Tier 3 Projects will look to invest upwards of $150,000.

The Foundation for Healthy Schools Executive Board reviews all potential projects to evaluate the greatest impact based on application requirements, need, timing, and community readiness. 

💚 Every donation plants the seeds for lifelong healthy habits.

The Science Behind the Mission:

Why Early Nutrition Matters

"Give me a child until the age of seven, and I'll show you the adult." —Jesuit Proverb

A child’s health, learning capacity, and long-term well-being are shaped in their earliest years—and nutrition is one of the most powerful influences. Research confirms that what children eat affects their brain development, immune function, and risk for chronic disease later in life.

The Impact of Processed Foods

Ultra-processed, chemically altered foods are linked to metabolic disorders, cognitive delays, and a sharp rise in childhood illnesses. These aren’t just poor choices—they’re dangerous norms.

Reconnecting Kids to Real Food

Today’s children are often disconnected from nature and where food comes from—making it harder to build healthy eating habits and self-awareness.

Epigenetics & Metabolism

Nutrition can literally shape gene expression—affecting how a child grows, learns, and thrives. Early food experiences leave a biological imprint that lasts a lifetime.

Meet Our Founder

Greg Bundschoks: From Farm to Foundation

The roots of the Foundation for Healthy Schools trace back to a Canadian hog farm, where a young Greg Bundschoks first witnessed how food quality directly affects health. Watching animals suffer due to poor nutrition sparked a lifelong question: If food could harm animals, what is it doing to our children?

Years later, Greg saw the same troubling patterns in school cafeterias—ultra-processed meals, rising illness, and a disconnect between kids and the food on their plates. That spark became a mission. Today, Greg leads the Foundation with a vision to transform how we nourish our children—by reconnecting them to real food, real learning, and real health.

Have a question or want to get involved?

If our mission resonates with you and you’re looking for ways to contribute, partner, or learn more, we’d love to connect.

Check out our FAQs below—or reach out directly here.

Let’s grow something together.