Kitchen Classrooms

Foodwise Kids

Foodwise Kids is a free program for elementary school classes that uses the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market as a classroom for empowering the next generation of healthy eaters. Through comparative tastings, exploring the market, and a hands-on cooking lesson, we nurture children’s love for fruits and vegetables, teach them to prepare healthy, seasonal foods, and raise their awareness of their role in a sustainable food system.

 

Evanston Ecology Center Food and Garden Program

We are a newly established community center food and education program.

Mountain Song Community School

 We are a new Waldorf methods based charter school in Colorado Springs with Agricultural Arts and Cooking Nutrition as an integral part of our curriculum.  Although 33% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch, we have chosen to be independent of state/federal program - our students brown bag snacks and lunch. We plan to expand our gardens and growing spaces (which started on a parking lot bed) to help support a locally sourced school food and our existing cooking program.

Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students

The Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students (BUGS) Program of Living Classrooms Foundation works with children from under-served Baltimore City communities throughout the year with an after-school program as well as a summer program. The program's primary goal is to empower and inspire our children to develop academically, creatively, and socially.

Saddleback College Culinary Arts

 Growing Healthy Kids, Inc. creates garden-based solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic through our core education programs:

Growing Healthy Kids in the Kitchen

Growing Healthy Kids in the Garden

We have strategic parterships with Boys and Girls Clubs and Youth Mentoring programs which allow us to reach children and families who live in food deserts where there is a higher incidence of obesity-related diseases.  Using new technology such as airponic growing systems, we bring fresh food production into the classroom.  

The Children's House Earth to Table

 We believe that education for all children should integrate opportunities to understand about the importance of a healthy body and mind. Through our Earth to Table program, it is our mission to offer children developmentally appropriate opportunities for physical activity, gardening, and cooking. Our vision is for every child to learn healthy practices from the start and lifestyle habits that will last a lifetime. Additionally, we hope to offer opportunities for other programs to learn from our model.

FEAST Asheville, Inc.

FEAST Asheville promotes healthy eating choices and makes them accessible to people of all income levels through hands on cooking and garden education that encourage and empower participants by teaching skills needed to make wholesome and tasty food.

FEAST classes focus on:

  • Problem solving, communication and teamwork

  • Connection to fresh, locally grown produce

  • Gaining confidence by exploring different ways to prepare fresh produce

  • Creating and changing recipes, substituting ingredients

Windham Raymond School District

Each school (6) in our district have Gardens that the student's planted. We serve the fresh garden vegetable for our school lunch and on our salad bars. 

We have nutrition education classes, where our nutrition and wellness coordinator goes into classrooms to interact with students and teach lessons on nutrition and food.

We are also starting a cooking club for students of all ages this fall to get involved. We will have taste tests to have the students more involved in what goes on the menu.

Napa Valley Montessori

 The Napa Valley Montessori school has just started it's first year of lower elementary education.  We are a small, traditional Montessori school incorporating the garden classroom into specialized science and everyday lessons.  We have also started an afterschool program with garden science, cooking, art and other classes. We hope to create our own Edible School Yard in American Canyon.

Collective Roots

 Collective Roots is a nonprofit organization founded and based in East Palo Alto, CA. We seek to promote food justice by engaging youth and communities in garden-based learning and nutrition education to positively impact health. Collective Roots achieves its mission through the innovative integration and implementation of two key program areas: school based programs and community based programs.

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