RECIPE GARDEN™
Recipe for Success Foundation's (RfS) professional gardening staff works with faculty, parents, students, and community volunteers to design and build a Recipe Garden™ at each of the elementary schools in which we work. The outdoor classroom environment includes raised garden plots for each classroom teacher as well as attractive communal areas. The Recipe Gardens™ provide school-wide enhancement as well a cornerstone of the interdisciplinary nutritional learning activities featured in RfS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™. RfS gardening instructors deliver monthly classes to the entire student body that introduce students to the complete food cycle, and work with teachers to help weave food gardening into curriculum like math, science, language arts and social studies.
The Recipe Gardens™ are also regularly used, after-school and during the summer, to deliver RfS signature programming. Besides suggesting grade-appropriate curricula and encouraging all teachers to take full advantage of the garden, RfS staff promotes interactive projects such as incorporating the garden into school-wide events, expanding to feature a school-based farmers' market and a variety of other initiatives to help integrate a culture of health throughout the campus.
Recipe for Success Foundation's (RfS) professional gardening staff works with faculty, parents, students, and community volunteers to design and build a Recipe Garden™ at each of the elementary schools in which we work. The outdoor classroom environment includes raised garden plots for each classroom teacher as well as attractive communal areas. The Recipe Gardens™ provide school-wide enhancement as well a cornerstone of the interdisciplinary nutritional learning activities featured in RfS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™. RfS gardening instructors deliver monthly classes to the entire student body that introduce students to the complete food cycle, and work with teachers to help weave food gardening into curriculum like math, science, language arts and social studies.
The Recipe Gardens™ are also regularly used, after-school and during the summer, to deliver RfS signature programming. Besides suggesting grade-appropriate curricula and encouraging all teachers to take full advantage of the garden, RfS staff promotes interactive projects such as incorporating the garden into school-wide events, expanding to feature a school-based farmers' market and a variety of other initiatives to help integrate a culture of health throughout the campus.
