Kitchen Classrooms

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is growing a food revolution from the ground up! Our key vision is pleasurable food education – skills for learning, skills for life.

We are changing the way children approach and think about food. All around the country, children are enthusiastically getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal food.

Sustainable Love from Development

Sustainable Love is dedicated to educating children about foods and nutrition by offering healthy foods at meal times, providing education materials about the foods being served, helping students create a garden and guiding children in preparing healthy snacks.

Our pilot project is taking place at Peaceful Valley Montessori Academy in Golden Valley. We've succeeded in providing healthy, naturally delicious meals. The garden and educational program was started and May and is coming along slowly, but we keep working to succeed.

John B. Connally High School Teaching Garden

The John B. Connally High School teaching garden was founded through a grant from Whole Kids Foundation / Food Corp and Les Dames Escoffier Austin Chapter as part of the Pflugerville ISD culinary arts program at John B. Connally High School to teach students where food comes from and to explore vegetables at the peak of freshness while learning different cooking methods to use them.

Rowan Garden Club

I started an organic garden club with about 10 studens after school this year.  I would like to expand the program and the garden and eventually create the edible schoolyard.

Northern Valley Regional @ Demarest Organic Garden

Our high school is situated in the middle of the Northern New Jersey suburbs, far removed from the farms that used to service the New York metropolitan area.  We currently have a 2500 square foot garden that we use to grow a multitude of vegetables and flowers.  Our support staff includes one teacher of culinary arts (this writer), interested staff,  a group of 25 dedicated students, and members of the Korean Parent association.

Northpoint Elementary School

The Northpoint Unity Garden and Monarch Waystation is a one-year old program that was created to revamp an used outdoor space.  It resides in an interior courtyard at an elementary school and is home to a vegetable and herb garden, feathered friends and a newly created Monarch Waystation.  We believe in partnering with community organizations to tap into areas of expertise to best educate our youth in grades K-5.

Garden of Learning

Garden of Learning is an award winning program that allows schools to start and sustain a successful academic garden program. It includes 10 CDs with materials to help you initiate, implement and sustain a successful school garden program:

The Garden System - A system for starting and sustaining elementary school garden programs.

The Sylvia Center

The Sylvia Center addresses issues in children’s health by providing hands-on experiences with growing and cooking healthy food on the farm and in the kitchen. Founded in 2006 by Liz Neumark in memory of her daughter, Sylvia, the center has served thousands of children over the past five years.

Edible Alchemy Foods

 Edible Alchemy cultures a vibrant food community from the ground up. We believe that nutritious and local food is essential to healthy individuals and healthy communities.

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