Pre-Kindergarten

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.

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

High Point Academy

Garden Leader: Stacey May -- may.stacey@gmail.com

 

High Point Academy (previously The Academy at High Point) is a charter school in the Green Valley Ranch area of Aurora. We serve about 400 students in preschool through 8th grade. Our school has a wellness focus that includes weekly wellness class for all students, staff wellness initiatives, and healthy snack requirements, among other programs.

Powell GT Elementary Community Courtyard Gardens

The Powell GT Magnet gardens and outdoor classrooms are educational spaces and part of our initiative to create a local food system that is based on community empowerment through education. We have partnered with Sixth Sun (www.sixthsun.co) and NCSU landscape design department to design and build gardens and outdoor classrooms at our elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Eventually our outdoor courtyard space will also have a rain garden, pollinator gardens and an outdoor stage for theatrical productions and concerts.

Acre Gourmet

 Acre Gourmet works with local purveyors to cook healthy, sustainable food on-site at schools in the Bay Area. We design and manage distinctive on-site lunch programs with the goal of integrating the school community and delicious, heathy food. In all of our kitchens we use the freshest, least processed ingredients available and whenever possible use organic products that are naturally low in sugar and saturated fats. Our menus are diverse, balanced and exceed USDA guidelines for nutrition.

Center Montessori School Garden

Center Montessori has had a school garden cultivated organically for almost 20 years. Currently we have 8 raised beds and numerous earth boxes and container garden boxes throughout the school. Our growing season is from October to June so we have ample time to grow seedlings in our greenhouse, plant our Fall and Spring gardens, and harvest organic vegetables. Students prepare food at different times as vegetables mature. We make things like tomato salsa, brocolli egg scramble, cabbage slaw, mixed green salad, herbed citrus vinaigrette, and much more.

The Learning Garden

Randall's island Learning Garden, created as a result of the combined efforts of the Randall's Island Park Alliance and GrowNYC is a 15,000 square foot urban farm that aims to provide schools and groups who lack on-site or proximal open space with the experience of environmental education and nutritional learning by growing, harvesting, cooking and eating garden-fresh produce.

 

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