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Kids Cook!

 

Poor nutrition has significant impact on kids’ lives.  The problem is that kids don't know how to "eat healthy."  At Kids Cook!™ our hands-on cooking programs combat those issues by creating awareness and working to establish lifelong healthy behavior patterns.  Our mission is to provide children with hands-on cooking experience and to teach a wide variety of kitchen, and life, skills in a fun, safe environment.  Kids Cook!™  is a social enterprise and has three program components.

The "Beyond the Label" Project

The "Beyond the Label" project is an endeavor to engage students, parents and communities in interactive workshops training them to read "beyond the label" in an effort to truly understand how to read and analyze nutrition labels as well as how to identify healthy and unhealthy ingredients. This project forms the foundation of understanding upon which we build our other programs tailored to introducing the relationship between food choices and disease and the healing properties of foods as well as our program in food economics. 

Quillisascut Farm

The Sustainable Kitchen, professional development program for culinary students and food professionals

In the rolling hills above Lake Roosevelt near Colville, WA, Quillisascut Farm™ offers food professionals and culinary students a unique opportunity to experience the farm-to-table connection first hand.

Happy Valley School/Career Advancement Charter

Listed are two different programs, both are part of the public school system. One serves elementary school-age children and the other serves young adults ages 17 and up who have not obtained a high school diploma.

Happy Valley School's mission is to educate the whole child in a small, safe, community supported school that provides a solid foundation to achieve academic, social , and emotional success.

The Joyful12 School Project

Families that cook at home are healthier but not every family has the knowledge or skills to cook simple, healthy meals their family will enjoy.

Our project aims to improve the health of an entire school community in Novato, California - children, parents, teachers and their families - by teaching basic cooking skills focused on vegetables and fruits first. 

We will teach an entire elementary school to cook and eat more vegetables together with:

State of Heart

"Caring for your tiny hearts"

Create a Change Now

We accomplish our mission by adopting an at-risk elementary school then starting from the

ground up by installing an Edible Desert Garden and using it as hub around which we plant

seeds of change throughout each school and within each child with our Healthy School,

Healthy Life program including:

•Edible Desert Gardens – Planting edible gardens provides hands-on learning

and nutrition education from the ground up for the students.

•Garden Club – Establishing a Garden Club in the school creates support from

Sustainable Kids

Since 2007, the students of Rhode Street School in Dinsdale, Hamilton, New Zealand have created annual Vision Maps as part of their Enviroschools inquiry unit on sustainability. From these student-centred and voiced ideas came the popular theme of growing their own healthy food. The students also wanted to learn how to prepare and cook the produce and, finally, how to market and share their surplus.

Brain Child Press

 Brain Child Press was founded to respond to the growing childhood obesity epidemic and the dual crises of poor health and low literacy in the U.S.  We saw the expanding need for attractive, easy-to-read educational materials that address topics essential to the healthy development of children. Since 2005 our materials have been used around the nation by agencies, programs, and individuals working toward healthier  families and communities.

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