This lesson plan has step by step instructions for cooking in the classroom and features literature and curriculum connections.
ASAP’s Farm to School Institute
Held on November 10th, 2012
University of North Carolina Asheville Sherrill Center
(2012-2013) ASAP’s Farm to School to Community Project focused on multiple intervention points to positively impact food environments, promote healthy food relationships for children, and build a stronger, more transparent local food system. This two year project, funded through Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, begun with a focus on Farm to School in three communities in year one and expanded to include restaurants, groceries, Head Start centers, hospitals and colleges in year two.
Students at Cullowhee Valley Elementary School enjoy a taste test of local sweet potatoes with help from Western Carolina University pre-service teachers and dietitians through ASAP’s Growing Minds Farm to School Program!
This beautiful book counts caterpillars in the garden up to ten. The back of the book highlights each caterpillar, what they eat, and the butterfly or moth that they turn into. A great book to introduce students to garden friends.
Oliver’s Auntie Jen wants to make him a delicious milkshake, and that starts with a trip to the farm! Together they gather the ingredients for a delicious fruity, frothy milkshake.
A collection of whimsical poems that highlight every season in the garden. Students will enjoy the creative rhythms and rhymes as they follow the garden from the first sprouts of spring to the forgotten potatoes of winter.