Nutrition
If your family loves pizza, here are some fun ways to make it healthier!
The School Garden Wizard gives helpful information on how to secure funding, create, and maintain a school garden.
REAL School Gardens believes that there is a way to better teach and engage students through the use of a school garden.
Kids Gardening is part of the National Gardening Association. They provide grants, and free materials for educators and families to inspire gardening as a learning experience. Their mission is to empower generations to live healthier lives, build stronger communities, and encourage environmental stewardship. The Kids Gardening website provides a comprehensive collection of youth gardening content for the environmentally conscious youth and professional.
Students can learn how to create and maintain a garden through the help of cimmunity partners and their school.
Grow it gives resources on how to involve a youth in gardening. They provide resources to develop a youth garden at schools or in private property. Food safety in the school garden is an article that teaches youth and staff how to be conscious about safety when consuming “the fruits of their labor.” From tools and materials, to soil and compose safety, water source, harvesting, storing, preparing, and serving garden produce.
The Garden Project helps you start a school garden and work with you to fit your school needs and budget. Among the help it provides is youth gardening education programs, collaboration on grant writing and fundraising, gardening training for school teachers/staff, and more.
Information about how to grow a school garden and the steps needed to bring a garden to your school and community. A great resource for teaching children how we depend on Earth’s resources to survive. It reinforces the concept of nutrition cycles, food production, decomposition, water conservation, and more.
The VRG provides information and tips on how to be a healthy vegetarian.
FDA’s site to promoting healthy habits through awareness, activities, contests, and recipes.
This website is here to help parents and children of all ages to live a healthier life.
Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.