This op-ed first published in the Traverse City Record-Eagle Agriculture Forum. For our students and our communities, school gardens can offer more than meets the eye. Well beyond teaching gardening skills, these spaces can develop knowledge in traditional subjects...
On a cold winter morning, 8th graders at Alanson public school were asked to mull over some tough, vulnerable, yet critically important questions by FoodCorps Service Members. Through an anonymous poll, we asked them, “Where do you receive messages and ideas about...
A FOOD CORPS TEAM UPDATE FoodCorps is a nationwide program aimed at providing students with access to nourishing food and food education in their schools. FoodCorps achieves this goal by connecting Food Education service members with students in the classroom,...
For kids, creativity rules the world. As a FoodCorps Food Education Service Member, I’ve witnessed students rely on creativity for every lesson we do—whether it’s engineering solutions to garden problems, brainstorming scenarios in a play about apples, or making weird...
It’s 7:45am on a Tuesday morning and I’ve arrived at East Jordan Middle High School. I’m here to visit Melissa Lyons, who leads the cafeteria efforts in the building, and who has already been here for hours. Melissa invites me into her kitchen and directs me to a...
The public school system of East Jordan is a small but mighty player when it comes to building a culture of nutritious food for students. The district’s ongoing collaborations with Groundwork, FoodCorps, the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, and other...