GrowingGreat would like to extend a special invitation to docents to attend our Farm to Table Benefit on June 4, 2016 at 72andSunny in Playa Vista. We have set aside tickets at a reduced rate of $230 each for docents and their spouses only. We will also assure you are seated with other docent...
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Celebrate with GrowingGreat and Celebrity Chefs Diana Stavaridis (Manhattan House), David LeFevre (MB Post) and Michael Fiorelli (Love & Salt) as we recognize Green Fork Honorees John and Kari Boiler and Leadership Award Winners Destiny Celio and Maria Beltran at our third annual Farm to...
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On June 4th, one of the many new programs we will celebrate is GrowingGreat Jr. Chefs – a partnership between local GrowingGreat fifth graders and Chef Diana Stavaridis of Manhattan House. We are honored that “Chef D,” as the kids call her, will prepare an amazing dinner for our Farm to Table...
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Please save the date for GrowingGreat’s annual Farm to Table Benefit, June 4, 2016. Join local celebrity chefs and GrowingGreat board members, staff, and friends for a night of food, wine, music and fun, all benefiting GrowingGreat’s nutrition and garden education programs. The event...
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Destiny Celio and Maria Beltran harvested radishes in their GrowingGreat garden at St. Pius X St. Matthias Academy today.
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Dear GrowingGreat Friends, As we toured the preschool, children swarmed the principal, giving him hugs and calling out “Hi, Mr. Alex!” We stepped outside the classroom and there was The Garden, a patch of dirt near the climbing structure, one lone rectangle that hadn’t been covered with cement...
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Dear GrowingGreat Friends,This year I have visited beautiful vegetable gardens filled with smiling children, but what I remember the most is the schools that look like fortresses, covered in cement and surrounded by fences. GrowingGreat is making a difference. The first low-income school in our...
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The second issue of our parent/child series “Play with your food/Juguemos con la comida” is now available on our website. In this English and Spanish activity, called “What’s for Dinner?/Que hay para cenar?,” children will learn about the five food groups while...
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On September 26th, thanks to a generous grant from the Steinmetz Family Foundation, GrowingGreat (GG) and Pius X Matthias Academy (PMA) worked together to transform a piece of dry, barren land into an edible garden classroom on the PMA campus in Downey, open to students and the community. Thanks...
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Stephany Fuentes is a student at Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale, CA, one of our partner schools participating in the GrowingGreat Chefs program, blending the science of cooking and nutrition to prepare teens for living independently. For more information, email...
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