Results: During the last 17 years, we have empowered over 50,000 children with the knowledge and skills to make healthy eating decisions for life; our VegOut! Challenge game has engaged over 75,000 players around the world and 35 veterans and others have completed our farmer training program at Hope Farms where we grow 60,000 pounds of fresh produce every year.
Target demographics: Our programs to teach, empower and inspire healthy eating help children, families and communities understand, appreciate and eat healthier food as a part of thier regular diet .
Direct beneficiaries per year: 7500 children on field trips and in our cooking and gardening classes; eight veterans who learned the business of farming; 91 families to whom we delivered free fresh farm produce and hundreds of families who bought just harvested produce at sharply discounted rates.
Geographic areas served: Houston, Texas, Regionally and Nationally
Programs: We teach empower and inspire healthy eating with nationally available programs including Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ that connects children to their food from seed to plate with hands-on experiential learning in classrooms across the country, www.eatitfoodadventures.org children’s learning website and Eat It! Food Adventures children’s cookbooks that entice children and their families to cook healthy food together, our VegOut! Ways in 30 Days Challenge (www.vegoutwithrfs.org) that engages players around the world to regularly put more veggies on their plates; and our place-based solution in Houston Texas–Hope Farms Urban Agricultural Showcase and Training Center where we grow healthy food in the midst of a food desert, offer cooking and gardening classes to children and adults and host a professional farmer training program–Growing Urban Farmers, to expand the footprint of locally grown food along the Gulf Coast. The Foundation aims to make healthy food appealing and available to everyone, work to establish healthy eating as the norm and to create a culture in which nutritious food is shared, appreciated and celebrated. Learn more at www.recipe4success.org.
