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Cooking with Kids motivates and empowers elementary school students to make healthy food choices. Through hands-on nutrition education activities, kindergarten through 6th grade students explore, prepare, and enjoy fresh, affordable foods from around the world.

The Growing Well with Mercy program is focused on community collaboration in order to fostes healthy lifestyles in our communities.This program is a natural outgrowth of our successful ten year Mercy Goes to school program teaching nutrition and germ preventon classes to local elementary schools

 Our Waldorf inspired pre-school has an organic garden and students actively participate in composting and gardening. We also offer an after school gardening class once a week (Tuesdays 3:30-5:30) open to 3-12 year olds. Students help maintain the gardens and a large pond.

The Oxbow School is a rigorous, interdisciplinary semester program for high school students, located in Napa, California. Our mission is to strengthen students’ abilities in creative and critical inquiry by combining rigorous studio art practice with innovative academics.

Our school will have a ground-breaking in May 2012 for our school-wide garden. Our students have assisted in the planning of the garden and are excited to begin growing and learning about plants and the garden system.

 "Digging in the Dirt" is a teacher created landscape plan to utilize our schoolyard as part of the classroom experience at Ethel A. Jacobsen (EJ) Elementary School.

Good School Food (GSF) is Jones Valley Teaching Farm’s primary program.  GSF is a food education model that connects Pre K-12 students to food through cross-curricular, standards-based content during the school day.

The Hilltop Garden Explorers program, based at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, WA, works to engage youths and families in an active learning environment through hands on gardening and ancillary cooking, community collaboration, leadership training, business experience, classroom training, r