Lower Elementary

Briscoe Elementary Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ Program with Recipe for Success Foundation

Since September 2006, 528 children have participated in RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ programming each month.

All the students receive monthly classes in the Recipe Garden and the 4th graders also get a monthly Chefs in Schools™ cooking class with a celebrity chef. Participating RFS Chefs in Schools instructors are: Garth Blackburn, Sub-Zero Wolf (monthly classes since 2008); Barbara McKnight, Catering by Culinaire (monthly classes since 2006); GianCarlo Ferrara, Arcodoro (monthly classes since 2009); Mariquita Combes, La Villette Catering (monthly classes since 2009)

Recipe for Success Foundation

Recipe for Success Foundation's Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ has taught over 16,000 Houston elementary children how to grow, harvest, and cook their own healthy food. A growing list of 80 high-profile Houston chefs volunteer their time to help. The only initiative in the country of it's scope, the RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ program introduces children to the entire cycle of food along with taste and flavor combinations, techniques, and skills that will serve them for a lifetime, and empowers them to prepare healthy meals and snacks for themselves.

Carlton Landing Academy

Carlton Landing Academy is a new public magnet school located in Carlton Landing on the shores of Lake Eufaula in eastern Oklahoma. Students are able to grow veggies, pick berries and raise chickens in the community garden - just across the street from the school buildings.

Poe Community Garden Project

We would like to start an organic vegetable garden at our school, Poe Elementary, this fall. Second Graders would be planting, tending and harvesting it.We want to start it in the fall to help build a sense of community , an awareness of health issues, and a sense of individual responsibility in our students.  We also plan on using this as a classroom, incorporating lessons from all content areas. 

I hope your organization can help guide us in our endeavor.

 

Sincerely,

Shawn Gray,

2nd Grade teacher

Poe Elementary, Houston, TX

City of Oakland Community Gardens Program

The City of Oakland's Community Gardens Program provides 16 community gardens and 17 youth programs citywide.  Our youth programs provide children ages 4-13 with the opportunity to learn where their food comes from, growing organic herbs and vegetables for cooking onsite at recreation centers, or at home with their families.  Please contact program coordinator Peter Collier at 510.238.2197 for more information, or send him an email at pcollier@oaklandnet.com.  You can also visit a City of Oakland recreation center to see how you can get involved

Whittier Elementary

 Garden Leader: Helen Quinn – helenpatq@yahoo.com

Whittier, one of our first Slow Food Gardens, is located in the Denver Urban Gardens community garden on the school grounds. We work with Summer Scholars to provide after school and summer cooking classes and garden classes for the K-5 students. The community garden hosts a pumpkin harvest and give away each fall.

Steele Elementary

 Garden Leader: Andrew Nowak – ajnowak@mindspring.com

In ten years, Steele’s garden has grown to be a showcase garden, with 1/3 acres, 30 plots, compost area, some raised beds, 12 fruit trees, greenhouse, garden sink, grape arbor, weather station, outdoor classroom, garden signs, worm box, and a sun dial. We are excited to use our greenhouse for the first time this year. We will soon begin our seedling plants, which will be hardened off in the greenhouse as we get closer to planting time.

St. Elizabeth’s Private School

 Garden Leader: Lynn Till – flordelamadre@gmail.com

St. Elizabeth’s School garden is a small but expanding in-ground vegetable garden located inside of the fenced in playground area. There are 2 covered picnic tables, a garden sink and sprinklers. As our small school grows we plan to grow the garden with it.

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