Food educators are important to helping children learn to love fruits and vegetables and build lifelong healthy habits. FRESHFARM FoodPrints’ approach to food education integrates robust kitchen and garden-based instruction – and joyful experiences – has been shown to have comprehensive results and lasting impacts. In this guide, we share our approach to training and developing food educators in four areas with materials and videos that build skills, language, and knowledge aligned with our approach.

Section 1: Overview

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Section 2. Experiential Food Education

Read about our approach to food and garden education with young learners

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Section 3: Cooking with Young People

Read about how to joyfully and successfully cook with kids

Explore keys to cooking with kids

Section 4: Gardening and Growing with Young People

Learn strategies for sparking students' curiosity and learning in the garden

Go Outside and Get Growing

Section 5: Cultivating Community

Involve your community to get buy in and investment

Engage with your Community