Introducing Nourishing Choices

This month we’re offering a peek inside our newest resource, Nourishing Choices: Implementing Food Education in Classrooms, Cafeterias, and Schoolyards, created to help you plan a comprehensive and effective food education program. You’ll also find related hands-on, taste-buds-on classroom lessons.

Background and Lessons

A Menu for Change - A brief intro to Nourishing Choices.

Excerpts from Nourishing Choices - profiles of effective food education programs in action:

Harvest of Dreams
Good Things Cooking in North Carolina
Shifting School Food Culture

Lesson: Savoring Flavors: Local Tastes Compete - Challenge students to design and conduct a taste test to compare locally grown produce with that grown far away.

Lesson: Food and Culture: Exploring the Flavors of Your Community - Explore the "foodways" represented in your classroom and broader community to whet kids' appetites for learning across the curriculum.

Program Spotlights

Healing Children Through Gardening - Kidsgardening Advisory Board Member Barbara Rees shares this program spotlight about a therapeutic gardening program that serves children dealing with crisis situations.

Adopt a School Garden Spotlight - Sponsored by Smith & Hawken, Fairhill Intergenerational School supports learning and community through student-elder relationships.

 

Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter
A fresh approach to container gardening

Cedar Raised Beds
Garden even if your schoolyard is paved



Rain Barrel
Capture runoff from your school's roof for irrigation

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