Kitchen Classrooms

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.

Antigua International School

The Antigua International School (AIS) was founded to provide a world-class education, based on critical thinking, to the children of Guatemala, regardless of their socio-economic status.  Half of AIS's student body receives scholarships to attend. Through an Edible Schoolyard, our hope is to educate students and the extended community on the benefits of growing their own food.  AIS's diverse student population provides a great opportunity to create positive nutritional changes in Guatemala.

Super Sprowtz

Our mission is to use the educational power of media to help children learn about nutrition and wellness. Our program seamlessly integrates a proven curriculum that addresses children’s critical developmental needs around nutrition education with an exciting multi-media approach. Our ultimate goal is to make it fun for the whole family! - See more at: http://supersprowtz.com/about/#sthash.ETmCj08N.dpuf

Family Cook Productions

FamilyCook Productions is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995.  We support communities with culinary/nutrition education programs because we know it takes a holistic approach to develop healthy family meals.

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Growing Matters Garden Program (Fair Food Matters)

The Growing Matters Garden (a program of Fair Food Matters) provides garden-based, hands-on learning opportunities for local youth and the larger community. Our main focus is to support and coordinate activities at the Woodward Elementary School garden in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Pure Food Kids Foundation

Seattle chef, Kurt Beecher Dammeier, has long been concerned about the growing number of food additives in the food supply, as well as the misleading food packaging that was attracting his own children. To effect change, in 2006 he founded the Beecher’s Pure Food Kids Foundation. Our mission is to empower kids to make healthy food choices for life. We do this by providing free, learning standards aligned food education and cooking workshops to nearly 800 4th and 5th grade classrooms in the Seattle and New York City metro areas.

FoodPrints at Tyler Elementary School

FoodPrints programs are now in 5 public schools in Washington, DC. The FoodPrints garden at Tyler Elementary is one of our newest, started in the spring of 2014 with a school garden grant from OSSE (DC's dept of education), generous support from FreshFarm Markets, and lots of help from the school community (students, staff, and parents).

Peabody School

The Peabody School Garden is a garden to table program for ages 3 through Kindergarten. It currently uses the Foodprints prgram for curriculum. Students participate in maintaining the garden year round as well as harvesting, cooking, studying soil, and composting. There is a kitchen classroom used for lessons as well as outdoor classes. The program is run by a garden director along with an intern and parent volunteers.

Alachua Farm to School Program

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Alachua County Public Schools seeks to increase the amount of locally produced foods served in school meals, and to expand nutrition and wellness curriculum through support from a Farm to School Planning Grant. In developing a comprehensive farm to school program, Alachua County Public Schools will focus on high need Title I elementary schools.

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