Upper Elementary

RAIZ DE FONDO

 Raíz De Fondo is a nonprofit organization based in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico that offers educational opportunities to children and adults in order to enhance local quality of life through organic gardening, nutritional advocacy, promotion of a sustainable culture, and community resilience. Three community gardens in La Paz serve as platforms for advancing this mission. Once abandoned lots, these urban oases now provide a space for residents to cultivate gardens, attend workshops and events, and build community connections.

Harvest of Dreams

 HARVEST OF DREAMS
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has….. Margaret Mead

It Is The Food!

Interactive, fun, hand-on workshops full of basic and vital knowledge to successfully feed oneself for wellness, happiness, and health. Workshops 

Basic information regarding whole foods and movement modalities. The knowledge given creates a road-map for each participant to create a bio-individual healthy pathway for wellness.

Working with 3-12 graders, families, and local pain clinics bringing useable knowledge that is making a difference in families and individuals for healing and living life in vivid full color.

Trinity Homegrown Foods

 Trinity Homegrown Foods is  advocacy  group to promote food and gardening centered in the rural community of Hayfork, Ca. We have been approached by the principle of our elementary school to help plan a community effort to coordinate local farmers participation is suppling food stuffs to the school lunch program and to assist in the formation of a student garden and possible kitchen classroom. We are at the initial planning stage of this project having just  submitted a grant proposal for funding this week.

City Growers

City Growers administers educational tours and workshops at Brooklyn Grange rooftop farms.  Using the working farms as learning laboratories, students K-12 experience urban agriculture first hand, enabling them to better grasp where their food comes from, and empowering them to make healthy choices for themselves and the environment.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is growing a food revolution from the ground up! Our key vision is pleasurable food education – skills for learning, skills for life.

We are changing the way children approach and think about food. All around the country, children are enthusiastically getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal food.

C.A.R.E.S.

At Tri-County we currently have 5 raised garden beds , a courtyard that the students designed with window boxes,and a new greenhouse. We integrate our curriculum everyday into our gardening initiative. Our students, most of whom are new to horticulure  attain valuable skills throughout the year .

Food For Thought

Food for Thought provides students with a federally reimbursed breakfast “in the classroom.” In each participating school, breakfasts are delivered directly to the classroom, where students and teachers spend the first 10 minutes of the school day eating breakfast together. During these 10 minutes of communal time, teachers can take attendance, lead students through a focused activity on health and wellness, and build a familial learning community.

Garden and Nature Club at Veterans Park Elementary School

 My friend and I wanted to start teaching kids where their food comes from and how to grow your own vegetables.  We are parent volunteers and started a small after club this year.  We want to continue to expand and hopefully have the cafeteria be able to use our harvest.  We have big dreams, but it's only the 2 of us and our funding is limited.

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