Growing Kids Workshops
28 Feb 2005
The Environmental Youth Alliance are offering an exciting, new, interactive educational workshop for young children that enables them to grow their own food, raising awareness of food issues at the local and global scale. Aiming to educate children on Food Security and Urban Agriculture, Growing Kids incorporates the curriculum while providing a fun learning experience on getting the garden ready for springtime.
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While we've taken every precaution to ensure that the content of this article remains intact, it may contain errors.The full workshop offers a youth-orientated introduction to the ideas of Food Security, examining where food comes from in the world, making the connection between healthy living and healthy bodies. It is also hoped that an understanding will be gained of how kids and communities can support healthy eating with empowering kids to make smart food choices.
Combined with all of this is the hands-on experience in growing food providing students with the skills and materials to care for their gardens. The Growing Kids workshops are a remarkable way of introducing children to their natural environments and an understanding of their impact on the Earth.
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