Changing the food system in Brooklyn, neighborhood by neighborhood
NYC-Based Programs for School Food and Gardens
NYC School and Youth Gardens is a Google Group
that you can join to exchange information about school
gardens.
Grow to Learn: Citywide School Gardens Initiative is a new program of GrowNYC with resources and information for school gardens.
GreenThumb NYC
GreenThumb NYC provides a comprehensive resource for school gardens. You will need to register your school garden to access all of these resources, which include tools, soil, lumber, program guides, and workshops.
The Children’s Aid Society
Children’s Aid launched a number of initiatives in 2003 aimed at slowing or preventing the rates of obesity in the communities we serve. These programs come together as Go!Healthy, an initiative that follows children from birth through adolescence and beyond, educating them about wellness and the joys of healthful cooking and eating. Programs are available to children and adolescents enrolled in after school programs through Children's Aid in Harlem. Children's Aid will also provide comprehensive curriculum and training to groups of schools anywhere in New York City who have the funding and would like to implement after school cooking programs in their schools.
Food Bank for New York City CookShop Programs
New York City public schools with at least 50% of the student population eligible to receive free or reduced-price school lunch can apply to participate.
CookShop Classroom
The program's after-school curriculum is designed to be implemented at community-based organizations and public school classrooms and taught by instructors who are trained by Food Bank staff. Aimed at children, ages six through 12, the after-school curriculum encourages healthy eating and lifestyles and offer hands-on, interactive activities that address cooking, food preparation, the six basic food groups, the dangers of high-sugar diets and more.”
Contact Information: Jeannie Fournier, jfournier@foodbanknyc.org
CookShop for Teens: EATWISE
“EATWISE (Educated and Aware Teens Who Inspire Smart Eating), our CookShop program for teens, is a nutrition-education program that focuses on empowering New York City high school students from low-income communities to raise awareness for food and nutrition among peers to work toward increasing access to healthy food in low-income neighborhoods. Over the summer months, the program provides participants with a series of hands-on workshops, field trips and opportunities to educate other youth about making healthy food choices.”
Contact Information: Justin Crum, Youth Development Associate, EATWISE Jcrum@foodbanknyc.org Phone: 212-566-7855 ext: 8367 Fax:212-616-4990
CookShop for Adults
“CookShop for Adults offers a series of hands-on workshops for parents and guardians of children in public schools who participate in our CookShop Classroom Program, which promotes healthy eating habits among elementary school students. Through CookShop for Adults, parents and guardians gain the knowledge and resources they need to help continue their children's nutrition education at home — as well as to make nutritious recipes that help to improve the health of everyone in their household.”
Contact Information: Natasha Anderson, nanderson@foodbanknyc.org
Green Thumb
GreenThumb offers support to groups starting new school garden projects by communicating with administrators and teachers involved in the project within the school concerning the next steps, technical or otherwise. GreenThumb also offers material support in the form of tools, lumber, compost, etc. to the school gardens that are unable to get these things themselves.
The Lower East Side Girls Club
Primarily serves girls who live in or go to school in the Lower East Side / East Village. Enrollment begins in September. Operates in multiple rental locations and partner schools. A central location will open up in 2011. Offers a variety of project-based experiential learning programs for girls age 4-College, including literacy, nutrition, and developing job skills. Free public programming available to the entire family on Saturdays during the school year. Runs Sweet Things Bake Shop, a culinary and business skills training program for girls.
Visit to learn more or contact Jenny Dembrow jenny@girlsclub.org.
Teachers College Center for Food & Environment
"The Center for Food & Environment at Teachers College is a national leader in the areas of food, food systems, and the diet-health connection. Its research leads to understanding why people make the food choices they do, and what types of interventions facilitate voluntary adoption of more healthful and ecologically sound food choices. This research has many practice-based outcomes." Funded by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Center has created the Linking Food and the Environment (LiFE) Curriculum, an inquiry-based science curriculum that helps kids build knowledge and awareness about food, the environment, and how what they choose to eat impacts their bodies and the environment. There are three modules available: The first is Growing Food, which addresses how nature produces food for us, how we grow and produce our own food, and how to use our knowledge of food production. The second is Farm to Table and Beyond, which addresses what happens between the time food leaves the farm and when it ends up on our table, including food preservation and processing, waste and recycling, and the methods and impact on the environment of transporting food from farm to table. Both modules are geared towards kids in grades 4, 5, and 6. The third module is Choice, Control, & Change. Geared toward middle schoolers, it asks kids to look at the environment around them, and to think about what it is like to make healthy eating choices in that environment. The LiFE curriculum may be ordered here ($80 for all three curriculum modules, $35 each.) Professional development workshops are available for schools in New York City who wish to implement the LiFE curriculum in their classrooms.
YMCA
YMCA Healthy Kids is a youth nutrition class for kids 5 – 12. Youth will learn about nutrition, learn how to make healthy snacks and they will have plenty of fun! Youth memberships cost $85 for the year and financial assistance is available. The Healthy Living Series is a workshop series that covers a number of different topics – everything from Healthy Cooking Demos to Weight Loss Support Group Meetings. These workshops are free and open to the public. Contact your local branch for more information.
Grow to Learn: Citywide School Gardens Initiative is a new program of GrowNYC with resources and information for school gardens.
GreenThumb NYC
GreenThumb NYC provides a comprehensive resource for school gardens. You will need to register your school garden to access all of these resources, which include tools, soil, lumber, program guides, and workshops.
The Children’s Aid Society
Children’s Aid launched a number of initiatives in 2003 aimed at slowing or preventing the rates of obesity in the communities we serve. These programs come together as Go!Healthy, an initiative that follows children from birth through adolescence and beyond, educating them about wellness and the joys of healthful cooking and eating. Programs are available to children and adolescents enrolled in after school programs through Children's Aid in Harlem. Children's Aid will also provide comprehensive curriculum and training to groups of schools anywhere in New York City who have the funding and would like to implement after school cooking programs in their schools.
Food Bank for New York City CookShop Programs
New York City public schools with at least 50% of the student population eligible to receive free or reduced-price school lunch can apply to participate.
CookShop Classroom
The program's after-school curriculum is designed to be implemented at community-based organizations and public school classrooms and taught by instructors who are trained by Food Bank staff. Aimed at children, ages six through 12, the after-school curriculum encourages healthy eating and lifestyles and offer hands-on, interactive activities that address cooking, food preparation, the six basic food groups, the dangers of high-sugar diets and more.”
Contact Information: Jeannie Fournier, jfournier@foodbanknyc.org
CookShop for Teens: EATWISE
“EATWISE (Educated and Aware Teens Who Inspire Smart Eating), our CookShop program for teens, is a nutrition-education program that focuses on empowering New York City high school students from low-income communities to raise awareness for food and nutrition among peers to work toward increasing access to healthy food in low-income neighborhoods. Over the summer months, the program provides participants with a series of hands-on workshops, field trips and opportunities to educate other youth about making healthy food choices.”
Contact Information: Justin Crum, Youth Development Associate, EATWISE Jcrum@foodbanknyc.org Phone: 212-566-7855 ext: 8367 Fax:212-616-4990
CookShop for Adults
“CookShop for Adults offers a series of hands-on workshops for parents and guardians of children in public schools who participate in our CookShop Classroom Program, which promotes healthy eating habits among elementary school students. Through CookShop for Adults, parents and guardians gain the knowledge and resources they need to help continue their children's nutrition education at home — as well as to make nutritious recipes that help to improve the health of everyone in their household.”
Contact Information: Natasha Anderson, nanderson@foodbanknyc.org
Green Thumb
GreenThumb offers support to groups starting new school garden projects by communicating with administrators and teachers involved in the project within the school concerning the next steps, technical or otherwise. GreenThumb also offers material support in the form of tools, lumber, compost, etc. to the school gardens that are unable to get these things themselves.
The Lower East Side Girls Club
Primarily serves girls who live in or go to school in the Lower East Side / East Village. Enrollment begins in September. Operates in multiple rental locations and partner schools. A central location will open up in 2011. Offers a variety of project-based experiential learning programs for girls age 4-College, including literacy, nutrition, and developing job skills. Free public programming available to the entire family on Saturdays during the school year. Runs Sweet Things Bake Shop, a culinary and business skills training program for girls.
Visit to learn more or contact Jenny Dembrow jenny@girlsclub.org.
Teachers College Center for Food & Environment
"The Center for Food & Environment at Teachers College is a national leader in the areas of food, food systems, and the diet-health connection. Its research leads to understanding why people make the food choices they do, and what types of interventions facilitate voluntary adoption of more healthful and ecologically sound food choices. This research has many practice-based outcomes." Funded by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Center has created the Linking Food and the Environment (LiFE) Curriculum, an inquiry-based science curriculum that helps kids build knowledge and awareness about food, the environment, and how what they choose to eat impacts their bodies and the environment. There are three modules available: The first is Growing Food, which addresses how nature produces food for us, how we grow and produce our own food, and how to use our knowledge of food production. The second is Farm to Table and Beyond, which addresses what happens between the time food leaves the farm and when it ends up on our table, including food preservation and processing, waste and recycling, and the methods and impact on the environment of transporting food from farm to table. Both modules are geared towards kids in grades 4, 5, and 6. The third module is Choice, Control, & Change. Geared toward middle schoolers, it asks kids to look at the environment around them, and to think about what it is like to make healthy eating choices in that environment. The LiFE curriculum may be ordered here ($80 for all three curriculum modules, $35 each.) Professional development workshops are available for schools in New York City who wish to implement the LiFE curriculum in their classrooms.
YMCA
YMCA Healthy Kids is a youth nutrition class for kids 5 – 12. Youth will learn about nutrition, learn how to make healthy snacks and they will have plenty of fun! Youth memberships cost $85 for the year and financial assistance is available. The Healthy Living Series is a workshop series that covers a number of different topics – everything from Healthy Cooking Demos to Weight Loss Support Group Meetings. These workshops are free and open to the public. Contact your local branch for more information.
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