Lower Elementary

Con Sabor

The program presents Cuban recipes, using local products. It shows traditional and current Cuban cuisine, with information about the healthy cook. We present many materials related with botanical and cultural characteristics of many edible plants, in order to show the rich biodiversity of them. There are some messages about the relation between food production and environment. It has a deep educational purpose.

I have published 6 cookbooks and several healthy food papers, such as:

Convivia La Habana-Germinal

Slow Food Cuba joins projects linked to the production and consumption of food related to human health and environment preservation. These groups are linked to several Cuban institutions that lead the processes of sustainable feeding. They linked different fields such as education, health, production, storage and consumption of food, agroecology, permaculture, renewable energy and food culture. We have worked in an integrated way. We also have collaborated with the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Turin and other university projects.

Feast Down East

Feast Down East is a non-profit organization, grant-funded through UNC Wilmington. Its goal is to build a strong vibrant local food system. Feast Down East helps small scale limited-resource farmers build and sustain their farms and connect them with local markets, such as schools, universities, restaurants, institutions and direct-to-consumers. Feast Down East aims to educate consumers and students on the importance of supporting local agriculture and increasing the consumption of fresh local foods.

Edible classroom plants indoors

River Woods Elementary teachers have a different kind of class pet: an edible class plant. Using grow light systems, they have grown tomatoes, basil, lettuce, mint, and peas. Kids are allowed to pick a snack directly from the vine and enjoy the daily surprises and/or bounty that the plants offer.

Uplift Community School Garden

 Uplift Community School is in its innaugural year as Gallup's Expeditional Learning School. Second and Third grade have teamed with a FoodCorps service member to establish a garden that will grow and flourish with the school. We have built and painted 8 raised garden beds. We envision expanding until our garden is an integral part of our school culture. In the future we hope to be growing enough food to provide for the school cafeteria!

Stonehurst Elementary

 Stonehurst has a wonderful growing garden filled with vegtables, flowers and plants. 

Norwich Public Schools

 Norwich Public Schools is a service site with the national program FoodCorps.

Church Rock Elementary School Garden

 Church Rock Elementary School has a humble but prolific garden. It is small in size, but mighty in production and effect. At Church Rock, second and third grade champion teachers have been working in the garden for 2 years. Their students have grown strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, and beans. Although not every student in every grade has had a chance to work in the garden, the teachers have organized a way for each student to taste the produce! 

The Green Heart Project

The Green Heart Project is a non-profit organization based in Charleston, South Carolina that builds school gardens and farm-to-school programs to educate students, connect people and cultivate community.  We currently oversee five school gardens and 12 school-garden programs in mostly low-income schools in Charleston, SC.  We serve 1,200 students (K-5) annually across those five school partners through a series of in-school programming, after-school programming and culinary classes.

Montezuma School to Farm Project

The Montezuma School to Farm Project (MSTFP) has been transforming the way students empower themselves and their communities around food and local agriculture since 2009. The Montezuma School to Farm Project mission unites our local agricultural heritage with our growing future by engaging students at the crossroads of sustainable agriculture, resource conservation, health and economics through educational experiences in outdoor school garden classes, on farm field trips, and summer farm camps.

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