Kitchen Classrooms

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.

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. 

Kanyon Kids Garden

Our school is very remote and a 40 minute drive to a grocery store and even farther for larger shopping choices. Our school has a population of 61 students and 80% of our student body are First Nations Peoples. Living in such a remote area meant less healthy choices for students and community members so it came about that the students wanted to grow food for the lunch program but also for community members as well.

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