Lower Elementary

Foodways at Nana Cardoon

Our programs draw from our own cultural histories while honoring connections with peasant farmers around the world.  We think of meals, produced from our farm by our students, as the binding elements of culture and our connection, throughg hands in the dirt, to agrarian cultures the world over, and to ourselves.  Our goal with students of all ages is the silence that settles in when a table full of eaters realizes they are tasting something from the garden, incrediblly delicious, fresh and nutritious, and that they had a hand in producing.

El Colegio de Panama School Gardening and Cooking Program

The El Colegio de Panamá health program is an initiative that includes the creation of a food garden as a classroom, cooking classes and the supervision of the school cafeteria. The school serves 1050 students all of which will be impacted by our health program.

The program development started on 2016 but it is now, at the beginning of Panama’s academic year (March 2017), that we will put all the ideas into action.

Children's Museum of Sonoma County

The Children’s Museumof Sonoma County’s mission is to inspire children’s creativity and stimulate their curiosity to discover the world through playful exploration of the arts and sciences.

The Edible Garden is a focal point in the Children's Museum of Sonoma County's campus.  To maintain the educational value and integrity of our garden, we work towards these 3 goals:

1.  Show visitors, especially children, where their food comes from and how it is grown.

School Sprouts Educational Gardens

School Sprouts Educational Gardens are innovative, custom-designed, curriculum-based programs for all schools, community centers, and afterschool programs that serve preschool through twelfth grade. We design and implement dynamic gardens that act as hands-on learning laboratories for scientific inquiry, writing and reflection, cultural studies, application of mathematical concepts, and health and wellness activities. Our services include garden design and construction, instruction, and collaborative planning for a diverse array of educational programs and institutions.
 

Sugar Beet Schoolhouse

In 2012 our community began building a grocery co-op that celebrates local producers and growers called Sugar Beet Food Co-op. In the process, we organized a 501c3 called Sugar Beet Schoolhouse that would continue to serve our diverse community with food literacy programming once the co-op opened.

In January 2017 Sugar Beet Schoolhouse grew to include a shared use commercial kitchen to serve as an incubator for budding food business, a small greenhouse for growing and education and a teaching kitchen for our cooking classes for all ages.

Food Innovation Kids Lab

The Future Food Institute (FFI) created the Kids Labs with the aim of proposing an innovative and disruptive model of food education for the youngest food innovators starting from the age of five.

Ventura Unified School District: Healthy Schools Project

The Ventura Unified School District Healthy Schools Project (HSP) is the education arm of Food and Nutrition Service's Farm to School Program.  The HSP equips students in 13 high need schools to develop a healthy relationship with whole, local fruits and vegetables through hands-on and standards-aliged cooking, nutrition, farm and garden education.  In collaboration with Education Services, the HSP integrates edible education with Common Core and Next Generation Science, so that these programs can be easily integrated into school and after-school programs.

Orrenmaa Elementary Edible Traditional and Aeroponic Tower Gardens

The beautiful Orrenmaa Elementary Edible Garden was created to educate our students and their families on the importance of crowding out junk food by adding in as much healthy, fresh, locally grown produce into their daily eating as possible.  The playful "If you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?" philosophy is introduced from the beginning of the "TK" and Kindergarten students first visits to the garden.

Edible Spaces

Edible Spaces was born from a wide-eyed dream about a community of learners brought together in an environment that fosters conversation, curiosity, knowledge, and discovery. Our mission is simply to start the conversation about edible education in our schools and community. Starting with a Public Elementary School in Kitchener, Ontario, this program will begin by serving students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 through the implementation of an edible school garden. A first in the region.

Common Core Cooking and Gardening for the Next Generation

Common Core Cooking empowers educators to integrate food education by aligning instruction to academic standards. 

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