Learn to grow, cook, and eat healthy

Through our project children will learn to grow, cook, and eat healthy foods, with ingredients they may not have been previously exposed to. when kids receive hands-on cooking guidance and are encouraged to try new things, they will likely influence their peers, share these recipes at home, and ask their parent/guardian to purchase more veggies in general. This program will change family eating habits and decrease the chance of illnesses caused by poor nutritional choices. We will also raise the consciousness of local kids and families regarding their choice to eat locally sourced foods. They not only will support local farmers, but also will Step 5: Tell us about your project idea decrease the environmental impacts of eating out of season produce. Children will become ‘nutrition ambassadors’ to their peers and families, and change family eating habits. The excess food raised by the children will be distributed at our local food pantry, and the recipes that they cook in garden kids cook workshops will be shared with the many visitors who frequent the garden during those hours. We aim to model a participatory community food justice model to meet the food needs of our neighbors. We have many garden members and host thousands of visitors per year. We hope our local community gardeners, guests. and program participants choose to ‘eat local’, grow more food, share with their neighbors, contribute cultural recipes, and bring our nutrition and food justice literature to their homes, gardens, schools, and organizations.

we will divide the work into months and workshop 

• build four new raise beds 
• start growing our vegetable and herbs by May 
• host education workshop about why we grow our own food 
• host cooking demos 

Needs in our community are safe spaces for kids to play and learn. This neighborhood lacks open space where the youth can interact with agriculture and have power over what grows. We have a large immigrant population. They live in fear because they do not know their rights or