Food Literacy Center

Founded in 2011 as a 501c3 nonprofit, our mission is to inspire kids to eat their vegetables. We teach low-income elementary children cooking and nutrition to improve our health, environment and economy. We have developed a 14-week curriculum. We use positive discipline in our instruction, and we keep our lessons fun, approachable, and hands-on. We use Broccoli Boundaries & Radish Routines to help students build lifelong habits and to become Food Adventurers. We started our nonprofit serving one school, and are now serving 800 elementary students in 8 schools weekly. We train community members as instructors through our Food Literacy Academy. We certify these trainees as Food Geniuses. We partner with afterschool partners and provide classes once per week. We work in school cafeterias, serving 100 students during a visit. This year, our school district is building us a cooking school on an elementary campus. We will move in by 2020. Alice Waters wrote us a letter of support for this project.

See more at http://foodliteracycenter.org