Kitchen Classrooms

City of Oakland Community Gardens Program

The City of Oakland's Community Gardens Program provides 16 community gardens and 17 youth programs citywide.  Our youth programs provide children ages 4-13 with the opportunity to learn where their food comes from, growing organic herbs and vegetables for cooking onsite at recreation centers, or at home with their families.  Please contact program coordinator Peter Collier at 510.238.2197 for more information, or send him an email at pcollier@oaklandnet.com.  You can also visit a City of Oakland recreation center to see how you can get involved

Edible School Garden Designs

As a cookbook author and kitchen garden designer, I see opportunities for schools to create beautiful gardens that go beyond growing basic food. I work with school gardeners who seek creative ways to build edible garden areas to invite the whole school community to spend time outdoors connecting to the food that is grown miraculously from a small seed.
 

Patterson High School Garden Program

 Patterson High School already has a small organic school garden of two raised beds.  Currently, a group of school social workers are maintaining the garden, and selling the produce to staff in order to generate further garden funding.

 

I would like to expand the garden and incorporate students and classrooms into it.  There is desire for this among staff.

Powell GT Elementary Community Courtyard Gardens

The Powell GT Magnet gardens and outdoor classrooms are educational spaces and part of our initiative to create a local food system that is based on community empowerment through education. We have partnered with Sixth Sun (www.sixthsun.co) and NCSU landscape design department to design and build gardens and outdoor classrooms at our elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Eventually our outdoor courtyard space will also have a rain garden, pollinator gardens and an outdoor stage for theatrical productions and concerts.

Mendocino County Youth Project

I work for the Mendocino County Youth Project in Point Arena, CA. I have a group of Middle School aged student who would love to get involved in an after school  garden program that promotes healthy organic choices that help create healthy bodies.

Center Montessori School Garden

Center Montessori has had a school garden cultivated organically for almost 20 years. Currently we have 8 raised beds and numerous earth boxes and container garden boxes throughout the school. Our growing season is from October to June so we have ample time to grow seedlings in our greenhouse, plant our Fall and Spring gardens, and harvest organic vegetables. Students prepare food at different times as vegetables mature. We make things like tomato salsa, brocolli egg scramble, cabbage slaw, mixed green salad, herbed citrus vinaigrette, and much more.

FHP EATS engagement in agricultural tasting and scholarship

 Aquaponics Community Garden cultivated by the Agriscience and Biotechnology Academy at Frank H. Peterson in Duval County. The initiative will also include vertical gardens to add beauty and functionality to food in your close vicinity, shaping the school, students, and community! Please join us as we change the Worl through impacting our students in more healthful, compassionate and environmentally friendly ways.

 

Common Threads - Los Angeles

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

Mission
The mission of Common Threads is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking.

Common Threads - Washington D.C.

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

Mission
The mission of Common Threads is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking.

Common Threads - Miami

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

Mission
The mission of Common Threads is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking.

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