Click here to view our 2012 Healthy Interactive Cooking Workshop schedule!
To find out more, visit Everyone’s Harvest Special Events Calendar.
Everyone’s Harvest Edible Ed is funded by the Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation and Project 17.
Everyone’s Harvest is part of the 2011 Monterey Gives! raising support for your Edible Education for Healthy Youth Program empowering families to make healthier choices.
More support for the Edible Ed Program means more fresh fruits and vegetables, free nutritional lessons, and $5 market coupons to youth, and their families.
Everyone’s Harvest Edible Ed teaching youth and their families about nutrition, fresh produce, small-scale farmers, and exercise. Launched in 2010, Edible Ed ran 12 sessions were youth surrounded by fresh produce at our Certified Farmers’ Markets:
- Connected with local Certified small-scale farmers
- Learned about the nutritional value of produce and how to make healthier eating choices while engaging in fitness activities
- Gained experience and culinary skills in preparing healthy meals using fresh fruit and vegetables from local Certified Farmers’ Markets.
After Everyone’s Harvest ran the 2010 Edible Ed program, we learned we needed to connect to not just the youth, but to the whole family to support healthy eating habits and saw a need to connect to more youth in the community. Now, the Edible Ed program includes:
- Farmers’ Market Scavenger Hunts helping youth discover the bounty of fresh nutritious food at our Certified Farmers’ Markets and connect with local agriculture
- Healthy Cooking Workshops engaging family members in inter-active cooking workshops where chefs and families come into Everyone’s Harvest outdoor kitchen to prepare and cook healthy recipes together using fresh fruits and vegetables for the farmers’ markets.
- Inter-active Nutritional Presentations at various after-school clubs and other venues informing youth about the importance of healthy eating, active living, and where to get fresh healthy food