Kitchen Classrooms

 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.

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

 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.

School gardens are a wonderful way to use gardening time as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agricultural concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects such as math, science, art, health and physical education while encouraging an understanding of personal and social responsibility. This project will promote healthy lifestyle skills while relating educational goals to the common core and relevant elementary school curriculum.