Adults/Professionals

Na CaZinha

"“Nourishing minds, bodies and communities with educational experiences.”

We inspire people to develop knowledge, skills and confidence for a healthier future through Kitchen and Garden classes.

School Culinary Consulting- We structure and implement programs in schools to transform the schoolyard into a vegetable garden and the kitchen into a classroom. We develop programs with schools to achieve well-being and health goals through culinary workshops. Cooking is used as a tool to teach different skills according to the needs of each school.

Children and Nature: CFD 596, San Diego State University

SDSU CFD 596 children & Nature: This course explores the positive impact of exposure to nature in children’s emotional, social, and cognitive development. The potential negative consequences of lack of contact with nature will also be explored in depth. Practical approaches for bringing increased contact with nature into the lives of children and into their early childhood educational experience will be emphasized, as will nature-based therapeutic approaches.

The Growing Life Garden Project

The growing life garden project currently encompasses 2 counties in Southern Colorado. We currently have 17 different garden sites along with over 500 participants. We are built on the foundation to help teach a life skill to urban undeserved youth along with helping families overcome food insecurities.

Chester County Food Bank

Chester County Food Bank mobilizes the community to ensure access to real, healthy food. The Raised Bed Garden Program increases availability of fresh produce for households at risk of food insecurity by supporting garden installations at partner organizations, providing community education on growing your own food, and by fostering community around food and gardening. Partner gardens are located throughout Chester County at schools, food cupboards, and social service agencies. In 2019 we distributed 46,672 seedlings to partner gardens who collectively grew 34,676 pounds of produce.

Seedleaf

Seedleaf works to relieve food deserts in north Lexington. We educate youth and adult citizens in our 13 urban garden spaces on market gardening, sustainability, and wellness cultivating the next generation of local food producers and healthy eaters. Our urban gardens also allow the community to come and and harvest for free during the growing season. Seedleaf also provides the public with composting services. We pick up food scraps from homes and businesses and process it at our facilities to be sold as a life-giving soil supplement.

Each Green Corner

Each Green Corner seeks to bridge the gap between home gardeners and food distribution non-profits to increase the pipeline of fresh, healthy, and culturally-diverse produce for our non-profit partners to distribute throughout our local communities. In the process, EGC promotes awareness about food insecurity in our communities, the deep connection between food security and public health, the importance of permaculture and sustainable agriculture to environmental health, and using urban agriculture as a means to build community.

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