Nutrition, cooking and gardening program for kids to be piloted at the garden starting in January 2010
2010 January 3
A new after school program called “LA Sprouts” will be piloted at the Milagro Allegro Community Garden starting in January 2010. This program, which is a partnership between the University of Southern California Childhood Obesity Research Center (USC-CORC) and LAUSD’s Loreto Elementary School in Cypress Park, seeks to reduce the risk of obesity and encourage healthy eating habits in children by teaching gardening, nutrition and cooking. In addition to the nutrition/cooking component of the classes led by staff from USC-CORC, gardening curriculum will be taught by a University of California Master Gardener.
To learn more about the new program, please see the LA sprouts press release
would love to see the curriculum! we are doing this at our elementary school as well and just got funding for 5 veggie beds… trying to sort out how it will all work.