Adults/Professionals

Cooking with Perry at the Dr. George W Davis Senior Center

Cooking with Perry at the George W Davis Senior Center

Join us for a cooking class on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month at 10AM for a one hour class focusing on local fresh produce and grains simply prepared before your eyes. Most recipes are very easy to prepare with five items or less. We'll prepare substantial salads, heart warming soups and stews, vibrant vegetables, satisfying desserts and mouth watering snacks.  

 

 

New Heights in Learning

New Heights in Learning creates hands-on, real-world learning environments in a wide range of settings. Our model of learning is centered on motivating and engaging both achieving and underachieving students by connecting meaningful hands-on learning experiences to classroom activities and state standards. This is done by connecting education to the context of real world experiences.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is an innovative hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  We believe hunger IS fixable if the community works together to do two things: create sources of healthy food in every low-income neighborhood and grow opportunities for people to provide for themselves by learning job skills or growing their own food.

Grow Your Own!

Grow Your Own! (GYO!) is The Ecology Center's community-building initiative dedicated to cultivating a sustainable food ecosystem and community. GYO! supports a growing network of over two dozen school gardens and their leaders with mentorship, trainings, curriculum, design support and resources to help create sustainable gardens and programing that are beautiful, educational, and functional, integrating essential elements of holistic ecological design. 

Growing STEAM Entrepreneurship in the Urban Community

The Partnership for Innovation in Education (www.piemedia.org) develops transformational, scalable, vertically integrated K-12 STEM Curriculum with community leaders, educators, business executives, university faculty, students, legislators and land, food, energy and technology entrepreneurs.  PIE Curriculum, first pioneered using the Socratic "case method" from Harvard University, features experiential "challenges" allowing students to devleop new career pathway opportunities and learning experiences offering real world learning.

The Food Initiative

The Food Initiaitive is growing healthy food, empowering lives and building community. The program works with young students and volunteers of all ages throughout the year. However, TFI's largest program is its Summer Youth Program, which employs 40 local high school students to work over the summer growing healthy food for the community, work in local hunger relief organizations, and participate in workshops on hunger and homelessness, money management, health, and more.

Grange Farm School

 

The Grange Farm School is looking for a special kind of student. You think holistically rather than in parts. You see the importance of asking high quality questions. You are innovative, ambitious, persistent, and collaborative. You want to be part of the new face of agriculture that will transform our world for the better.

The "Beyond the Label" Project

The "Beyond the Label" project is an endeavor to engage students, parents and communities in interactive workshops training them to read "beyond the label" in an effort to truly understand how to read and analyze nutrition labels as well as how to identify healthy and unhealthy ingredients. This project forms the foundation of understanding upon which we build our other programs tailored to introducing the relationship between food choices and disease and the healing properties of foods as well as our program in food economics. 

Bloomington Community Orchard

Bloomington Community Orchard is an organization devoted to growing fruit for the community and growing our orcharding skills through educational opportunities. The publicly owned orchard is maintained by volunteers, and the harvest is available to everyone in the community. The Education Team provides educational programming to people of all ages through presentations, workshops and educational tours, consultation, and representation at community events. Our Junior Stewards Program offers year-round hands-on educational opportunities to area youth. 

Mundo Gardens Community Garden

Located in National City, CA, Mundo Gardens is a roots community garden program empowering youth and families throughout San Diego and across borders. We are cultivating wellness and creativity by combining nature, music, and the arts.

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