Kitchen Classrooms

The mission of the Butternut Community Preschool is to promote a child’s natural love of learning. This mission is accomplished through an emergent curriculum guided by the interests of the children, but designed to develop the skills and knowledge necessary for their future academic success. Projects are designed to encourage the children to collaborate, discuss and ask questions.

 Costa Verde is a private International school that is serving the community of Sayulita, Nayarit, (Mx).  Our school offers a progressive, environmental, bilingual, and whole child education.  Currently we are making strides towards expanding on our potential to utilize our gardens for a greater impact in nurishing our students bodies and minds.  Our goal is to start a lunch program that offers meals that are grown, prepared and enjoyed by our students.

Moss Haven Farm provides nutritional, agricultural and environmental education on an urban school farm that grows student skills in academics, healthy lifestyle and giving back to the community. Our school farm serves the community surrounding Moss Haven Elementary, a diverse neighborhood of Lake Highlands in northeast Dallas, Texas. It is considered to be an urban community with a blend of single-family dwellings and apartment communities.

SEEDS is a nonprofit organization in Northeast Central Durham with a 2-acre urban garden and kitchen classroom. We aspire to develop the capacity of young people through growing, cooking and sharing food. We promote the principles of responsbility, environmental stewardship, community, equity, problem-solving, teamwork, leadership, sustainability, experiential learning through seeds-to-feast, educational programming for young people who attend primary and secondary schools.