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The Cultural Conservancy Native Foodways Program

The heart of The Cultural Conservancy’s Native Foodways work lies in connecting Native communities, Native youth, and non-Native allies together in a trailblazing effort to give Native communities equal access, knowledge, and understanding of their foods, traditions, and cultures. In doing so, we focus on health and nutrition through food as an integral step toward improved well-being.

Free Library of Philadelphia Culinary Literacy Center

Advancing literacy by providing the opportunity to experiment with new foods, new skills, and new ideas. 

The Free Library of Philadelphia understands that literacy is not a “one size fits all” experience. Opening in June 2014, the Culinary Literacy Center (CLC) is revolutionizing the way Philadelphians think about food, nutrition and literacy. People become literate through multiple different pathways—and food is one pathway we all have in common.

Happy Valley School/Career Advancement Charter

Listed are two different programs, both are part of the public school system. One serves elementary school-age children and the other serves young adults ages 17 and up who have not obtained a high school diploma.

Happy Valley School's mission is to educate the whole child in a small, safe, community supported school that provides a solid foundation to achieve academic, social , and emotional success.

FoodCycle

The Foodcycle Project (Alimentociclo in portuguese) is a street food cart adapted to store and manage educative kits and tools. The education activities approach differents subjects around food adopting a sistemic way of understanding.

We act offerring courses, workshops and activities for schoolar groups (from kindergarten to high school), for community and productive groups in rural and traditional localities, and also for groups of lunch maids, parents and teachers. Yet, we offer activities in open space public events such as gastronomic feasts and farmers markets. 

The University Village Community Garden

The University Village Community Garden offers 170 plots of various size on 6.5 acres of farmland to the 3000+ residents of U.C. Berkeley's University Village Student Family Housing. Additionally, we have open community orchards, berry patches, and a children's garden. We are partnering with Nature Village to offer family programming, including edible education in our gardens and community center. 

Slow Food Miami Garden Program

Since 2007, Slow Food MIami has developed and administered a large school garden program that impacts up to 35,000 students at over 50 elementary, middle and high schools in the Miami-Dade school district.  We give mini grants, install raised garden beds, supply financial resources and educational materials and training to the qualified schools that apply for our grants.  We are very wide reaching and are now going more deeply into the classrooms via curriculum integration and into the cafteterias with garden produce being added to the daliy fare offered to students.  

St John's Lutheran Church Food Pantry

The food pantry at St John's works with area schools to ensure kid friendly, healthy food is available to the members of our community.

 

Through working with the administrators and guidance counselors at area schools we are able to identify families who need help putting a meal on their table. Our food pantry collects non-perishables and strives to provide fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy and animal-based proteins through the generous donations of our parishioners.

 

 

School Health Initiative Progam (SHIP)

SHIP is a partnership between the Williamsburg James City County (WJCC) School Division and the Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF), and a multitude of community partners that are committed to working together to create a healthier community. SHIP’s mission is to improve the health and wellness of WJCC students and staff by supporting and promoting healthy eating and active lifestyle habits in the schools, homes and the community.

Valleybound - School and Community Garden

Valleybound is an empowering educational space that promotes healthy living practices through local agriculture, conservation and sustainability. School and community gardens have succeeded in various cities around the San Luis Valley including Saguache, Del Norte and Alamosa. These gardens have provided their citizens with a way to reconnect with their roots, all the while sustaining a dialogue centered on healthy lifestyles.

Fenix Farms

CONCRETE HUERTOS installs urban orchards and provides educational programming to communities surrounding the orchards on growing food. 

HUERTOS CONCRETOS se dedica a optimizar espacios reducidos a través de la instalación de huertos y su integración con programas educativos que capaciten a los usuarios a producir alimentos sanos en la ciudad.

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