Kitchen Classrooms

Somers Middle School

Somers Middle School is a service site with the national service organization, FoodCorps. A FoodCorps Service Member will be joining the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, to work with three area middle schools. Among the three, she will serve in nutrition classes, school gardens, a hydroponic greenhouse, and farm to school procurement.

 

Somers Middle School has mutliple school gardens, including an indoor hydroponic garden and an outdoor rasied bed vegetable garden.

 

Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center at Lake County Community Development Center

The Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center is a service site for the national FoodCorps organization. A FoodCorps service member is partnered at MMFEC. and collaborates with teachers to integrate food and nutrition education into their classrooms, with school and community members to start school gardens and garden-based education programs, and with food service directors and producers to get more local, healthy foods into schools.

National Center for Appropriate Technology & Butte Public School District

 This is a service site with the national program FoodCorps.

The Farm to School program serves students in the Butte Public School District. Students receive nutrition education lessons, after school food and garden programming, food tasting activities in the school cafeteria, and much more! The Farm to School program is also working with the Butte School Lunch program to source and serve more fresh, local foods in the lunchroom.

Greater Brunswick Charter School

 Greater Brunswick Charter School is a free, independent public school founded by area parents and educators in 1998. Located in a newly renovated building in New Brunswick, NJ, our school welcomes a diverse population from New Brunswick, Highland Park, and Edison, as well as other districts around the state.

The Farm at Effie Kokrine Early College Charter School

 The Farm at Effie Kokrine Early College Charter School is a special project of Effie Kokrine FFA. Students participate in a summer "Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture" class and grow a one-acre vegetable garden, selling the vegetables at farmer's market. During the school year, FFA students take classes like Fiber Arts and raise angora rabbits for fiber. In the future, we hope to expand to raise livestock such as chickens and goats and have a full-time vocational agriculture program.

FoodCorps Hawaii

The Kohala Center is an independent, not-for-profit, community-based center for research, conservation, and education. By focusing on the needs of island residents and the research interests of our university and agency partners, three core areas of work have emerged: energy self-reliance, food self-reliance, and ecosystem health. Through these partnerships and by recognizing that we work in a model environment, we help communities on the island, in the Pacific, and around the world thrive—ecologically, economically, culturally, and socially.

Kids Country Edible Education Project

Kids Country is  an afterschool program operating  15 sites at Elementary Schools in San Ramon and Danville, CA   Last year, inspired by a visit to the ESY, we launched our Edible Education Project.  We   recruited staff who shared our passion and got to work.    Committees were formed dedicated to planting edible gardens, improving the quality of food served, serving meals family style, and developing garden and cooking curriculum for all 15 sites.     This year we will continue to grow and look forward to collaborating with experts and educators, and to creating partnerships with our fami

FoodCorps California

FoodCorps is a nationwide team of AmeriCorps leaders who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy.

Serving alongside educators and community leaders, FoodCorps members partner with schools to put in place a three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids, creating a nourishing environment for all students. Our service members provide:

The Food School at Common Ground Urban Farm

 The Food School is a start up non-profit organization in Ft. Collins, CO that offers unique agricultural experiences combined with on- and off-site food education for children and adults. Currently, our staff visits local classrooms and delivers standards-aligned food educaiton curriculum about topics such as food equity, food security, and faces of the food chain.

Tender Greens Sustainable Life Project

The Sustainable Life Project (SLP), developed by the founders of Tender Greens Restaurants, believes firmly in the power of food to bring nourishment, healing and opportunity to young lives.

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