Recipe for Success Foundation

Recipe for Success Foundation's Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ has taught over 16,000 Houston elementary children how to grow, harvest, and cook their own healthy food. A growing list of 80 high-profile Houston chefs volunteer their time to help. The only initiative in the country of it's scope, the RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ program introduces children to the entire cycle of food along with taste and flavor combinations, techniques, and skills that will serve them for a lifetime, and empowers them to prepare healthy meals and snacks for themselves.

After just six years and 16,000 children, the Foundation's efforts are reaping big rewards. Parents report that their kids are now cooking at home, turning away from foods they have learned are unhealthy, and they display a solid awareness of what healthy eating is all about.   Children are surprising themselves by trying, and even liking, vegetables that they would never touch before.  And teachers are reporting improved behavior and attention spans in class.

Recipe for Success Foundation provides programming free of charge to four HISD elementary schools, twelve other elementary schools in four Houston area districts have contracted with Recipe for Success to deliver programming, and seven additional Houston area schools are participating in a pilot program as RFS Licensed Affiliate Partners.

Four national partners will join as RFS Affiliates in late 2012 and the Foundation is answering demands from over 200 schools and districts across the country who have been waiting to implement its signature programming with the national deployment of Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™. Applications for RFS Affiliate Licenses and S2P Instructor Training are available as of September.

Other projects include Eat It! Food Adventures™, a kid’s adventure story cookbook that is scheduled for release on September 15, and television show of the same name that is in pre-production with Houston PBS in preparation for national syndication. The Recipe for Success team is developing Hope Farms Coop™, an urban farm project in Houston.  Hope Farms will support on-site markets and a rolling green market to deliver affordable produce for neighborhoods marooned in "food deserts," job opportunities for urban youth and market growing business incubation opportunities.