Join Posana for a Meal to Benefit Growing Minds!
On May 16, Posana will have a special Appalachian Grown dinner menu from which local food lovers can order. The proceeds from that menu will support connecting farms and schools and give children positive experiences with local food.
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Lesson Plans
Looking for ways to connect your school garden, cooking activity, or local farm to curriculum? Check out our Farm to School lesson plans for every month of the school year.
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Local Food in Schools
Each month, Growing Minds staff members connect farmers, distributors, and school food leaders to ensure students have access to healthy local food. When cafeterias buy from local farms, students eat fresher, better-tasting meals. What’s more, local farmers tap into another source of income, and the school’s food dollars stay in the local economy!
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Local Food Guide for Kids
ASAP’s Local Food Guide for Kids is a guide to area school gardens, family-friendly farms, and other Farm to School happenings in Asheville City schools and schools in Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, and Jackson counties. Find the second edition in schools and online now!
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Farm Field Trips
Growing Minds staff members support farmers and teachers who want to make farm field trips possible for students. Through our annual mini-grants, workshops, and trainings, teachers and farmers get the resources they need to create lasting, hands-on learning experiences. And, children come away forever connected to local food and farms.
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Local Food Cooking
Dynamic cooking classes bring local food to life for children and adults alike! Growing Minds staff members train teachers and chefs in organizing successful cooking classes, demos, and tastings for students of all ages. Through these experiences, students form positive lifelong eating habits.
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School Gardens
School gardens take learning beyond the walls of the classroom. The Growing Minds team trains teachers to establish Farm to School gardens and to integrate gardening into state and national curriculum.
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Stories
Glen Arden’s GRAND Farm to School ExperienceAs part of our Farm to School Cooking Program, Chef Adam Hayes has been bringing a little bit of the Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel to Glen Arden Elementary School each month....
