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Resources The Food Trust brochure The 2009 Farmers' Market schedule Kindergarten Initiative Toolkit Kindergarten Initiative 2006 Evaluation Report Healthy Recipe Cards » View all related resources

Related Programs: School Market Program This program is a hands-on learning curriculum that teaches students to improve their diets, develop employment and entrepreneurial skills, and educate themselves about issues that affect their health and the health of their communities. Farmers’ Market Program At the farmers' markets, our staff uses interactive displays as well as informal educational opportunities that often happen around small group and individual discussions.

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Nutrition Education

The Food Trust provides fun and interactive
nutrition education programs to over 50,000
students in the Philadelphia, Reading, and
Norristown school districts.  The Food Trust’s
team of educators teach nutrition lessons in
over 90 schools and 33 recreation centers.

Specific components of The Food Trust’s
nutrition education work in schools and
recreation centers includes:

• Lessons in classrooms
• School-wide taste tests of nutritious
  foods
• Providing teachers with trainings
  and educational materials
• Outreach to parents
• School Market Program
• Kindergarten Initiative

 

Learn more about our nutrition education programs with The Food Trust's Amy Deahl-Greelaw in the YouTube video An Afternoon of Healthy Changes.

 

The Food Trust’s nutrition education work is funded by PENNSYLVANIA NUTRITION EDUCATION TRACKS, a part of USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). To find out how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program can help you buy healthy foods, contact the PA Department of Public Welfare's toll-free helpline at 800-692-7462 or 215-430-0556. In Philadelphia, The Food Trust’s work is subcontracted through the School District of Philadelphia’s Eat.Right.Now. program.