Saddleback College Culinary Arts

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms, Kitchen Classrooms, Academic Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
High School, College/University, Adults/Professionals
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
200
Year Founded: 
1999
About the Program: 

 Growing Healthy Kids, Inc. creates garden-based solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic through our core education programs:

Growing Healthy Kids in the Kitchen

Growing Healthy Kids in the Garden

We have strategic parterships with Boys and Girls Clubs and Youth Mentoring programs which allow us to reach children and families who live in food deserts where there is a higher incidence of obesity-related diseases.  Using new technology such as airponic growing systems, we bring fresh food production into the classroom.  

We produce a weekly column for parents filled with recipes, gardening ideas, tips, and resources called "WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS" at www.growinghealthykids.blogspot.com.

We are a nonprofit organization acting locally and thinking globally to improve the health - and lives - of America's children.