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Healthy Foods AND Learning
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Kids are much more enthusiastic about eating healthy snacks when they get to help prepare them. Here, Chef Chela Cooper shares an easy recipe to prepare with students, and ideas for using cooking to apply reading and math skills.
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A Year of Service and Learning
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Jessica Berry is the Great Kids Farm Volunteer Coordinator, completing a year of service with the Episcopal Service Corps. She grew up in Baltimore City, living in Locust Point, Federal Hill, and Port Covington. Here she shares some thoughts on her personal experiences at Great Kids Farm.
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Nature as Classroom
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For two decades, I’ve written about programs and approaches for addressing the needs of young people around the world. Much of my work has focused on what it takes to equip youth with the essential life skills they need to succeed as adults. Now, as a Friends of Great Kids Farm board member, this is the lens through which I view much of what is being cultivated at the Farm.