Kitchen Classrooms

Black Pine Circle School

Black Pine Circle School (BPC), an independent K-8 school in Berkeley, California, creates lifelong learners through an inquiry-based Socratic education that places equal emphasis on academics and the arts.

BPC's garden program started in 1997 with the hiring of a dedicated garden and landscape worker who expanded her role (and created the garden program) by collaborating with teachers to bring garden and environmental education to the school's students. She also supported the installation of recycling and composting infrastructure around the school. 

I Made That Nutrition/Gardening

We have just entered our I Made That thematic unit. One of the tracts, is "I Made That Nutrition" We have broken that down to Gardening, Nutrition Science, Cooking Skills, Culture, etc... 

Kids in the Ambassador’s Kitchen

Since 2009, the Residence at Embassy Bern has conducted programs for children in the Kitchen Garden on the east side of the property. Students learn how foods are harvested, become conscious of the environmental advantages of eating locally grown fresh foods, and are taught the best ways to cook foods in order to preserve their nutritional value.

Moreland Middle School Cooking Class!

One of Moreland Middle School's semester electives choices is a Home Economics class currently called "Let's Get Cooking!".  We also offer an "International Cuisine" class.  We discuss all aspects of the food cycle, but specifically how REAL food, properly prepared, nourishes our body & brain, making us smarter, stronger & healthier!  We have 6 kitchens where we prepare weekly recipes that are simple & delicious but will also support our growth & learning, and even prevent disease!

Pepin Academies Green Thumbs Garden

The Pepin Academies Garden is used in our culinary classes and across a variety of academic classes. The garden utilizes organic and water conserving gardening methods.

Newton Community Farm

The mission of Newton Community Farm is to nurture a community that teaches and models sustainable agricultural and environmental practices on the historic Angino Farm.

We are dedicated to providing the community with an authentic farm experience that highlights  and promotes sustainable growing practices.

As a fully operational farm, we have the ideal setting for hands-on, interactive learning for all ages and skill level on site as well as offering outreach programs in the local community.

Top-school program Nordio

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We trying use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.

Edible Schoolyard Kern County

The Edible Schoolyard Kern County is a program supported through the Grimm Family Education Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit, based in Bakersfield, California. Working with students, teachers and parents, the Foundation supports initiatives to improve education and wellness in Kern County. The mission of the Foundation is: Through our charter schools and Edible Schoolyards, we will close the achievement gap, graduating students at or above grade level in literacy and math, improve the health of students and families and create economic impact in the communities that we serve.

DC Bilingual Public Charter School

DC Bilingual PCS is a spanish-english bilingual school serving DC students in PreK-5th grade. We have a spacious outdoor classroom with an herb garden, an edible garden and cooking space, butterfly and pollinator gardens, and more. Our garden is a rich educational space that supports learning in all subject areas in addition to being an important green, growing haven for our urban students and families.

Blue Adobe Project dba Sky Islands school

Sky Islands is an eco-focused independent public high school, non-profit and part of the Local First Arizona movement, and working to develop a 12-acre urban campus sustainably using permaculture practices.  We are in the process of developing a garden kitchen program and bringing our school kitchen up to code to work as a teaching kitchen.  We are developing cooking classes so that students can prepare slow food, healthy lunches with the help of local farmer's markets and the Tucson Food Bank.  By the end of this year we should have a producing seasonal garden from which to pick our own fo

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