HEALTHYouth: Empowering Youth to Cook. Grow. Thrive.
Farm to Neighborhood aims to build a truly sustainable culture of healthy eating habits in Athens that will last for generations. Instilling lifelong knowledge of healthy foods and cuisine and establishing healthy habits begins with engaging young people. Farm To Neighborhood is building upon its demonstrated successes in increasing access to fresh food by developing a HEALTHYouth Resource Center with a hands-on culinary and entrepreneurship learning environment. We will offer a nine-week hands-on HEALTHYouth program. We own the site and facility for theHEALTHYouth Resource Center and are engaged in fund-raising efforts, confident that our many partners will be eager to support the Center.
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The HEATHYouth program will teach elementary and middle-school youth hands-on basic healthy cooking concepts and techniques, expose them to various types of cuisine, show them how to connect food and money through healthy meal planning and budgeting, foster entrepreneurial thinking by connecting them with local chefs and culinary entrepreneurs, and mentor them in developing a basic business plan and budget. Participants will learn about other programs/opportunities to continue building their skills and knowledge, such as CCSD ag science and business education courses, the Athens Career Academy hospitality pathway, the Athens Technical College culinary program, Bread for Life, and the Classic Center Hospitality Careers Academy.
Week 1: What is health & nutrition?
Week 2: Types of Cuisine
Week 3: Hands-On: Guest Chef teaches youth to prepare specific cuisine: kabobs
Week 4: Vegetables and Healthy Meal-Planning and Budgeting: hands-on preparation of a salad with homemade salad dressing
Week 5: Entrepreneurship, visit from Farmer/Entrepreneur, and visit to local farm growing fresh produce
Week 6: Hands-On: Guest Chef teaches youth to prepare Jamaican cuisine
Week 7: Snacking the healthy way & hands-on preparation of making a healthy snack
Week 8: Hands-On: Guest Chef teaches youth to make healthy smoothies
Week 9: Graduation and Student Skill Demo Day: Students share their unique skills in what they learned during the class, and presentation of class certificates