Kitchen Classrooms

FoodCorps Connecticut

FoodCorps is a nationwide team of leaders that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy.

Mission
Through the hands and minds of emerging leaders, FoodCorps strives to give all youth an enduring relationship with healthy food.

Waikiki Food Farm

 The Waikiki School Food Farm is about growing foods by kids for kids with a mission to encourage young children to love and protect their ‘aina, discover where food comes from, and learn to take pride in growing their own food. The farm also serves as a valuable outdoor classroom resource for teachers and educators to use in addressing benchmark standards in all subjects. The farm was initiated and has continued to be supported by community volunteers, generous contributions from local businesses and the school’s staff and families.

First School Garden Program, Good Food Sandhills

 In 2007, NC ranked 5th in the nation for childhood obesity; where 42% of Moore County students were overweight or obese. Moore County is populated by many low-income communities struggling to access healthy food while other areas are lush with manicured lawns & golf courses. The FirstSchool Garden Program was developed in response to that growing childhood obesity crisis in Moore County.

Lower Columbia School Gardens

LCSG helps schools start & sustain gardens in SW WA - dynamic outdoor classrooms where students experience the natural world & engage in hands-on learning of science, math, nutrition, ecosystems & more. Children have opportunities to connect with real food & to treat themselves, others, & the world around them with care & respect. Students often take the lead; our staff & volunteers look for the teachable moments.

Elmhurst Community Prep/Alliance Academy Healthy Cooking & Gardening Groups

The goal of the ECP/AA garden and healthy cooking program is to increase food access and nutrition information for the students of Elmhurst Community Prep and the East Oakland community. It provides an interactive learning space where classes and after-school programs can incorporate the garden into lesson plans that teach about biology and food justice. The school garden creates an environment where students are encouraged and excited to learn about new, healthy foods and the ways in which they are grown.
 

Green Thumbs Growing Kids

Green Thumbs Growing Kids serves 3,000 children, youth and families every year in hands-on experiential programs in four school food gardens, and also greenhouse, summertime and after-school programs. We have a youth empowerment program and hire students for the summer, resulting in deeper community engagement in the school gardens, which function as a food security measure in the low-income communities where our programs are located.

Branciforte Middle School Life Lab

We are a community of learners who get outside to grow fantastic crops and flowers in the warm climate of the  Banana Belt area of Santa Cruz, California.   Our Middle School garden is in its second year of production.   We involve our 6th grade core classes, our art, cooking and science classes in hands on learning weekly.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne Farms is an education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.  We offer daily field trips for school children (pre-K - 6th grade), throughout the academic year, as well as summer camps for youth ages 4-17, summer "Stewards-in-Training" opportunities for teens, and college and post-college internships and apprenticeships, based either in our education department or at our 7-acre Market Garden. 

Edible Garden Patches ~Growing Green Program

The program inspires and educates our community at all levels to garden organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and conserve wildlife habitat.

Gorman Heritage Farm

Gorman Heritage Farm is a 122-acre working farm and outdoor education center, which invites its visitors to explore and learn the history, methods and values of a working family farm in a natural setting. We are located on Reading Road in Evendale, Ohio. The Farm is one-half mile south of Glendale-Milford Road.

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