Kitchen Classrooms

Agricultural Arts at Brooksville Elementary School

Agricultural Arts is an exciting new program at Brooksville Elementary School in which all students get one period a week of gardening & culinary education. The class is designed to teach gardening and cooking skills through hands-on learning, gives students a role in cultivating our school garden, and explores a range of subjects through an agricultural/environmental lens. We let the seasons and the natural world guide our learning. The curriculum has been built from scratch based on available human and ecological resources in our community and student inquiry and interest.

High Tech Elementary North County

High Tech High is guided by four connected design principles - equity, personalization, authentic work, and collaborative deisgn - that set aspirational goals. High Tech High is an equity project. Our school is intentionally diverse and integrated. Teachers work to address inequities and help students reach their full potential. Through a learner-centered, inclusive approach we are able to support and challege each individual sudent. We recognize that idenity growth occur in the context of community, our schools fostere relationships of trust, caring, and mutual respect among students.

Lord Roberts Elementary School

The Edible Education program provides hands-on learning opportunities to over 500 students each week to explore gardening, cooking, healthy eating and sustainable food systems. The LunchLAB program is being launched to engage Grade 5-7 student leaders in the preparation of lunches to build food literacy and provide access to delicious, healthy and sustainable food.

Green City Market

The mission of Green City Market is to pave a new path for the local food economy in the Midwest by fostering opportunity for small family farmers, educating consumers and the next generation of eaters, and increasing access to local, healthy, sustainable food for all Chicagoans. Green City Market achieves this mission in three different focus areas. To create opportunity for small farmers, we offer year-round farmers markets featuring local family farms, as well as scholarships and resources for small farmers through our Farm Forward Fund.

arc Culinary Academy

Arc is an after school program focused on bridging the opportunity gap for students through experiental learning amd enrichment. Our culinary program was created in 2015 at Ulysses S. Grant High School in Los Angeles. The focus is to offer students the chance to develop their interest in the food world whether for professional or recreational purposes. Students learn traditional techniques and cooking methods along with the standard professional safety and health practices required of any working kitchen.

Acta Non Verba

Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project (ANV) elevates life in the inner-city by challenging oppressive dynamics and environments through urban farming. Founded and led mainly by women of color from the surrounding neighborhood and larger community, ANV creates a safe and creative outdoor space for children, youth, and families in East Oakland, CA.

Poe Center for Health Education - GrowWELL Garden

The Poe Center for Health Education is a private not-for-profit organization that educates North Carolina’s children, youth, and their families about health topics and the importance of leading healthy lifestyles. Our mission is to educate and empower North Carolina’s children, youth, and their families to make choices that increase positive health behaviors.

SunRidge Charter School Farm Program

The mission of the garden program at SunRidge Charter is to foster a living connection and relationship with the land upon which the school resides. Our lease on our land may be temporary but the work we do to restore the land will benefit many generations to come. 

As the Greek proverb states, a society grows great when we plant trees in whose shade we may never sit.

RECREA, ESCUELA PARA LA VIDA

RECREA, Escuela para la Vida, is an educational initiative of the Government of the State of Jalisco that aims to promote health and the integral development of children through socio-emotional skills and healthy lifestyles.

The life skills needed to live are developed throughout life, and this development can be intentional and directed by educational institutions from early stages.

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Metropolitan State University

As a former volunteer and intern at ESY, I'm really excited at the prospect of attending the Edible Schoolyard summer training. Since leaving ESY in 2012, I have been working as a chef instructor in Denver, CO. I currently teach culinary education classes for students enrolled in nutritional science and hospitality progams at Metropolitan State University. We offer some unique programs, including a certicate in urban agriculture. 

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