Kitchen Classrooms

Horicon Mindful Edible Schoolyard

Matrix of Change, a local non-profit sustainability group founded by Mary-Dee Bowers in the 1990s, has provided Horicon School with both a mindfulness program, (Goldie Hawn's MindUp Program) and a working garden with fencing, tools, garden boxes, and now a new portable green house so that each classroom has its own garden area. Horicon's dedicated administration, faculty, and staff, and a group of local volunteers help the children build and reestablish their own gardening systems each year.

Granite Mountain Garden Program

After-school garden club and cooking club is facilitated by FoodCorps and funded by the 21st Century Grant. Programs presents gardening and nutrition education in a fun, hands-on way with science as the foundation for learning. Program also includes school-wide taste tests of local produce and integrating healthy produce into school events, such as bake sales.

Cultivating Community - Riverton Elementary School

We teach garden classes in the school garden in the Fall and Spring and cooking/ nutrition classes in the winter.

Cultivating Community - East End Elementary School

We run garden classes in the school garden in the Fall and Spring, and cooking/ nutrition classes in the winter

Hellstern Middle School

FoodCorps service members help run Hellstern Middle School's community garden. The Hellstern garden provides opportunities for hands-on learning and skill building for the students as well as a living classroom for garden-based math and language arts classes. In addition, it provides fresh fruits and vegetables for the Hellstern cafeteria and a student-run farmers market. 

Growing STEAM Entrepreneurship in the Urban Community

The Partnership for Innovation in Education (www.piemedia.org) develops transformational, scalable, vertically integrated K-12 STEM Curriculum with community leaders, educators, business executives, university faculty, students, legislators and land, food, energy and technology entrepreneurs.  PIE Curriculum, first pioneered using the Socratic "case method" from Harvard University, features experiential "challenges" allowing students to devleop new career pathway opportunities and learning experiences offering real world learning.

Seed Life Skills

Seed Life Skills is a nonprofit dedicated to increasing food and financial awareness in youth through professional development and curriculum materials. 

We are working to incorporate lessons for DIY crafts & sewing, cooking & nutrition, financial & environmental stewardship, and so much more into our curriculum. We also hope to be multifaceted with our educational materials, and will incorporate applications of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into as many lessons as possible. 

Intergenerational Landed Learning Project

The Intergenerational Landed Learning Project unites the generations to cultivate habits of earth stewardship and healthy living.  Our programs:

•Promote environmental stewardship

•Celebrate healthy eating & lifestyles

•Facilitate intergenerational and cultural exchange

•Cultivate social development and lifelong learning

•Inspire experiential learning across disciplines

 

Our programs include:

Grange Farm School

 

The Grange Farm School is looking for a special kind of student. You think holistically rather than in parts. You see the importance of asking high quality questions. You are innovative, ambitious, persistent, and collaborative. You want to be part of the new face of agriculture that will transform our world for the better.

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.

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