Nutrition Education in the Classroom

Hidden Harvest Board Member and super-volunteer Valerie Gwyn reads from “Kiss the Cow” to kindergarten students at John Kelly School in Thermal, Calif.

Hidden Harvest volunteers teach Eat Smart-Be Smart Nutrition Education Curriculum to pre-school through second grade children as our way to combat childhood obesity.

Hidden Harvest volunteers conduct nutrition classes in area public schools, spreading our message of healthy food and healthy bodies. If you would like to help…you do not need a teaching background…just a love of children! We will train you. The result? Happy healthy children!

Hidden Harvest is involved in planting gardens in grade schools. Come join us by volunteering several hours a week to make a difference in a child’s future.

Healthy Fairs

In conjunction with our nutrition education in the classroom program, Hidden Harvest offers "Healthy Fairs" once a month in our pilot school, Agua Caliente Elementary School, Cathedral City, California.

These "Healthy Fairs" are held monthly on the school's campus, and offer a dozen or more varieties of Hidden Harvest's fresh, local produce free of charge to the parents and grandparents of the children who attend this school. Healthy recipes for the produce distributed are also provided along with other nutrition info. The produce is displayed "farmer's market" style and the markets are allowed to choose which items they want. Over 7,000 pounds of produce are distributed to about 350-400 parents at each Healthy Fair.

Reports show that about one-third of children and teens in the USA, some 25 million children, are overweight or on the brink of becoming obese. Learn more about America’s movement to raise a healthier generation of kids…join Michelle Obama’s campaign to fight childhood obesity.