Blog posts categorized with FoodPrints

We believe that engaging students outdoors, digging in the soil and connecting with nature, is so important after a year of extended screen time and social isolation. This past winter and spring, Tyler Elementary has been on the forefront of providing outdoor education in partnership with FoodPrints.

As I reflect on this year, I think about how being a college freshman is already difficult, and then you add an entire pandemic on top of it… it has been crazy! Despite the many challenges, I managed to get through the year, and something that helped me power through each week was my internship with FRESHFARM FoodPrints.

Imagine popping outside your front door, and waiting for you there is a bag full of fresh produce that you will use to have fun cooking and eating with your friends and family. Well, for students at five D.C. Elementary Schools, they don’t have to use their imaginations… this is FoodPrints!

FoodPrints is the real deal. They know what they're doing and they do it with excellence. I wish they could be in every school in the District and every school in the country!

Testimony to DC Council to advocate for partnership models to support outdoor education models to as part of COVID recovery at DC public elementary schools in COVID recovery budgets - and to establish a system for recurring funding in the city budget to support food, garden and environmental education programs.

ROI for FoodPrints’ Comprehensive Food Education Program makes connections between DC policy, national research, and FoodPrints evidence. 

While we cannot gather in groups to cook and eat in our FoodPrints teaching kitchens right now, we have kept food education central to our programming by pivoting to virtual cooking sessions paired with access to fresh food from FRESHFARM farmers.

Virtual FoodPrints science-focused classes at Watkins Elementary include lessons on Weather & Seasonality, Plant Life Cycles, and Garden Ecosystems. We are teaching science concepts through movement, art, music-based learning, all grounded in our FoodPrints Curriculum.