Give your class a taste of nutrient-dense food growing in their garden.

Research shows that children often must be exposed to a new food repeatedly before they will “adopt” it into their diets.
The resources below will help you support the academic and physical benefits of students sampling raw samples and taking part in Garden Kitchen Recipe demos in Learn, Grow, Eat & Go!
Spinach Quesadillas - pg.138 Student learn to make classroom-friendly Garden
Kitchen recipes to sample veggies growing in the garden.
Greasy Grid Evaluation, Learn - pg.84 Research shows that brief activity breaks like this
can help improve academics and on-task behavior.
Paper Towel Gardening, Learn - pg.23
Steps for planting your new garden, Grow - pg.122
Map out garden using Paper Towel
Gardening seed templates.
Growing New from Old, Learn - pg.78 Growing bumper crop of potatoes
at school from old, sprouty potatoes
Greasy Grid Evaluation, Learn - pg.84 Compare translucent grids to evaluate
fat content of chip samples.

Teacher Resources

The Resources below are referenced in Learn, Grow, Eat & GO! and support your class’s Eat component.