What is Farm to ECE?
Farm to ECE includes any type of child care that consists of local foods through one or more of the following: meals and snacks, taste tests, lessons, farmer visits, cooking, growing food, and/or community and parent involvement.
Alliance for Children is excited to be piloting a program at New Testament Child Development Center along with Union County Cooperative Extension and Smart Start MASTERS. Children in the program are planting seeds, watching the vegetables grow and then harvesting and eating the produce in the classroom. They are hosting visitors from the farming community and taking food ideas home to share with their families. Cindy Owen, New Testament CDC Director, said the children and teachers are having so much fun with the class.
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Children are participating in a lesson on seeds and plants.
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