Nutrition Education
To help adults and children eat nutritiously and improve their physical health, Growing Places is partnering with Share our Strength’s Cooking Matters in Massachusetts to provide nutrition-based cooking classes to current and prospective gardeners in the communities we serve. For adults, we offer a six-week class designed to promote healthy food choices, teach lifelong cooking skills and provide practical nutrition information as well as food budgeting strategies.
We’ve introduced nutrition education and cooking to a wide range of children through the schools in our service area to help reduce the growing number of at-risk youth. The program introduces children to the ease and benefits of more nutritious eating and shows them how to make easy, healthful snacks and meals.
Participants in both programs receive donated groceries, recipes and a gift bag of kitchen accessories to help them stay on top of their new skills.