Middle School

Mission

• Sprouts’ strives to teach Bay-Area children of all socio-economic backgrounds how to cook, hands-on, with real chefs, using real ingredients, in real restaurants whenever possible.

Description

• Sprouts' Cooking Club is a program based in the East Bay that provides children the opportunity to cook in real restaurants with real ingredients, right alongside real chefs.

Mentors/ Inspiration

Catawba River District has two goals: 1 - develop a sustainable regional vision and 2-create a network of schoolyard gardens (currently 6 - targetign 11) imbedded with STEM (science technology engineering and math) curriculum, connected to a CSA (community supported agriculture) program to support the gardens in the summer and a "sustainable" working farm in the center of the network, adjacent to one of our middle schools.  Whitewater Farms involves both a working CSA where participates work 1 hour per week and receive discounted locally grown food, and a working farm with grass fed beef, s

I am a 7th grade Science teacher at Earl Warren Junior High School in Bakersfield, CA.  In fact, some of my students that will be coming to my classroom in the Fall 2012, will have come from Buena Vista Elementary School that currently has an Edible Garden!

My college degree is in Food and Nutrition and I have always had an interest in good health.  Now, more than ever, it is necessary to teach our children about good nutrition.  And, what better way than the Edible Garden! 

The Grove School is a Montessori public charter school in Redlands which is located in San Bernardino County in California. Grove serves students from 7th to 12th grade. Grove is unique in that it is the only public Montessori school in the US with a working farm. The middle school is located on a working farm that has both livestock and organic garden produce.