Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education
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Collapse ▲Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education actively engages youth in understanding about healthy foods utilizing seasonal, local produce to build a meaningful connection to the growing experiences that youth are participating in. For example, students may be cultivating a winter crop of kale that they harvest for a cooking class to make massaged kale salad. Research suggests that students that have grown their own fruits and vegetables are more willing to try and taste them.
Students making a cabbage slaw
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| Curriculum & Lesson Plans | Resources |
- Junior Master Gardener through Texas A&M University and Texas Agrilife Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program have developed an evidence-based curriculum, Learn, Grow, Eat and GO! that weaves together gardening, nutrition education and physical activity.
- Rainbow Recipes: Eating a rainbow is a great way to explore the nutrition in fruits and vegetables from the garden!
- Garden Water: Encourage drinking more water by adding flavor from the garden!
- Dip Trio: Every kid loves a tasty dip for their veggies from the garden. Put them in charge of making a dip with these ideas.
- Super Seedy Trail Mix Fractions: Grow sunflowers and pumpkins and harvest the seeds to make this mathematically delicious snack!
- Cooking with Radiation: Bring science and cooking together by exploring the effects of using a microwave to cook sweet potatoes.
- Food Miles: How far has your food traveled? Work with students to understand the pros and cons of food miles.
- USDA-FNS Team Nutrition has developed a number of garden-enhanced curriculum resources including: Serving up MyPlate (elementary), The Great Garden Detective Adventure (Grades 3 & 4), and Dig In! (Grades 5 & 6).
- Edible Schoolyard: A database of lessons and recipes that have been submitted by educators across the country.
- NC State Extension’s Steps to Health is a SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) funded program that integrates fresh fruits and vegetables into healthy eating nutrition programs.
- Steps to Health has lessons for every grade and the 4th grade program inspires students to plant, grow, and try a variety of vegetables while learning about nutrition and physical activity. Each lesson includes taste tests, physical activity, gardening experiences, and educational
games.
- Steps to Health has lessons for every grade and the 4th grade program inspires students to plant, grow, and try a variety of vegetables while learning about nutrition and physical activity. Each lesson includes taste tests, physical activity, gardening experiences, and educational
- The Local Foods Nutrition and Health portal has many seasonal recipes that can be used in a classroom and videos that show basic cooking skills that can be used to teach youth.
Primary Contact:
Liz Driscoll
4-H Youth Specialist
Departments of Crop and Soil Sciences, Entomology and Plant Pathology and Horticulture Science
NC State University
liz_driscoll@ncsu.edu