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2015 Report to the community

Food Systems &
Culinary Arts Education
SEEDS connects diet
and long-term health
By Sarna Salzman
SEEDS
SEEDS provides experiential
education in food systems for K-12
youth throughout the region, focusing primarily on youth living in
pockets of persistent poverty and
otherwise marginalized.
During the 2013-14 school year,
we provided almost 7,000 contact
hours of food systems education,
making direct
connections
SEEDS
between diet and
provided
long-term health.
almost
Along the way,
we shared meals
7,000
with peers and
contact
their families and
hours
illustrated how
of food
“breaking bread”
is an important
systems
tool for binding
education
a community
in 2013together.
Our Food
2014.
Systems and
Culinary Arts Education Specialists
on staff are trained in the critically
acclaimed Cooking Matters™ set of
curricula developed by Gleaners of
SE Michigan. Utilizing professional
chefs and dieticians, we can provide
industry recognized certification credentials as part of our youth workforce development program.
SEEDS also operates the Farm @

During the 2013-14 school year, SEEDS provided almost 7,000 contact hours of
food systems education. (Photos: Record-Eagle, above, and SEEDS)

Historic Barns Park in order to engage youth directly in the full cycle
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of farm to table to compost.
www.ecoseeds.org