Food & Nutrition Education

Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education Resources

Resources for teaching about food and nutrition in the garden and the classroom.

Edible Education

April 7, 2012 7:20 AM

Do you teach kids about where their food comes from? Are you searching for resources to make the garden to table connection? Here's a great new resource.

Edible Education

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Making the Garden to Cafeteria Connection

December 18, 2011 11:59 PM

Serving garden grown veggies in school lunch or breakfast is becoming more and more popular.

From Garden to Cafeteria

Tips and sample policy from districts working to serve garden grown produce in school food.

Taste and Class from a School Garden

October 26, 2011 3:37 PM

The seeds Toyon Middle School students planted in the spring are now being harvested, and they are getting to taste the fruits of their labor.

Eat

Eat your way to wellness in a school garden!

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Producepedia

Producepedia offers fun facts, interesting history, and nutritional information about produce as well as a chance to meet the family farmers that grow "the best medicine in the world!"

A Healthy Lifestyle

Beyond academics, the garden provides broader life lessons including contributing to students’ knowledge of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The state of California is experiencing a major health crisis as the number of overweight and obese youth is growing at an epidemic rate.

"Rethinking school lunch: Cooking with California food in K-12 schools" by Georgeanne Brennan and Ann M. Evans

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/sites/default/files/uploads/cooking_with_cali... This is from the Farm to School & School Garden Research Consortium website: http://datadorksunite.ning.com/ Question: Are we duplicating efforts since this other website already exists? This is a book, not really an article.