Kitchen Classrooms

Mountain Mamas

"It takes a mama."

Mountain Mamas is an artisan cooperative of local, like-minded women supporting the highest well being of our families and community.

Mountain Mamas came together to strengthen our skills, knowledge, and resources:

EJ Patten Garden Project

The E.J. Patten Garden Project's goal is to support students in learning about "where our food comes from!"  Our students have a hands on experience from starting our seeds indoors, to nurturing seedlings and finally planting and maintaining our raised bed garden.  The garden is a magical place for our kids to learn about the plant process, interdependence of all living things and the importance of eating healthy organic vegetables for ourselves and our environment.

Greenhouse Gardening

We are growing vegetables and herbs in our recently built greenhouses.  We then prepare and eat them with the Life Skills Teacher to promote healthy eating habits.  This program involves the third - fifth grade students at our school planting the seeds, transplanting them into the greenhouses, and harvesting the mature plants before preparing them in the life skills classroom.

 

Foodweb Education

 Foodweb Education is a gardens-based program that is currently developing a framework that teaches and reinforces fundamental ecological patterns such as energy flow and matter cycles. It aims to provide students with not just a set of behaviours, but tools for conscious adaptation within natural limits and a deep understanding of the processes that sustain life.

Leuzinger High School Culinary Careers Academy

 The Leuzinger High School Culinary Careers Academy provides students with relevant and integrated learning opportunities focused on food, nutrition, fitness, and the hospitality industry.

CCA curriculum is inquiry and project-based; learning occurs primarily in labs, kitchens, and collaborative groups. All CCA courses and activities are dedicated to developing students' academics, career skills and health and wellness for life beyond high school.

Groovy Grrls Collective

Groovy Grrls Collective is a non-profit community gathering space devoted to mentoring, educating, and supporting women.  The collective will open on September first, launching an after-school program, a mentor program, a music practice space, an art gallery, a library, and a common space for community programs, workshops, classes, lectures, and events. 

Slide Ranch

Slide Ranch Mission
The mission of Slide Ranch is to connect children to nature. Slide Ranch teaches visitors the impact our choices have on food, health, and the environment, through hands-on activities and independent exploration of our farm and coastal wild lands.

Every bite of food connects us to the soil, sun, water, and air, and to the people who work to feed us. Slide Ranch teaches respect and responsibility for sustaining these connections.

Create Common Good

 Create Common Good uses food to change lives and build healthy communities. Our vision is a healthy community where people have access to empowerment, employment, self-sufficiency and access to healthy food. We use access to healthy food to positively change people's lives by harnessing the community's resources to build lasting systems that provide employment and self-sufficiency. Our training programs all prepare at-risk, underserved populations to find, perform, and retain work with the ultimate goal of self-sufficiency in our community.

Grow Dat Youth Farm

The Mission of the Grow Dat Youth Farm is to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food. On our farm we work collaboratively to produce healthy food for local residents and to inspire youth and adults to create personal, social and environmental change in their own communities. Grow Dat is a place where people from different backgrounds and disciplines come together in research and practice to support public health, local economies and a sustainable food system in South Louisiana.

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