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What’s the next best thing to growing your own food? That’s right, eating it! At Nature’s Schoolyard, we bring the outside in to our classrooms and homes. Through cooking activities and recipes, we teach children better nutrition and share the history of food—helping them make healthier choices.


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Recipe K-5

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Strawberry Spinach Salad w/Poppy Seed Dressing

Strawberry Spinach Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing is a delicious way to introduce kids to spinach (one of our healthiest greens in the garden). This recipe can also be made with Mandarin Oranges and almonds when fresh strawberries are not available. This recipe will serve approximately 12-15 students.

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Recipe K-5

Prod# NSYCF_013

Sunflower House Snack

Sunflower Seed Snack: A fun follow up to a seed-planting activity is making “Circle of Life Snack Bags”. Include a wide variety of seed-based foods to reinforce the importance of seeds in a healthy diet.

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Recipe K-5

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Three Sister Chili

Three Sisters Chili is an excellent culminating recipe for Fall Harvest or anytime. The chili features the Three Sisters: Corn, Beans and Squash. This recipe is a great lesson for nutrition, because it features all of the stripes of My Pyramid.  Serve with Cornbread for a Fall Harvest Dinner. One recipe will serve 20-25 students.

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Prod# NSYCF_009

Tooty Fruity Nutty Granola

Tooty Fruity Nutty Granola (Gift of Trees Snack) is a great activity to make when studying trees. This recipe combines heart-healthy oatmeal (grain) with dried tree fruits (apples, cherries), nuts (almonds, cashews) as well as other fruits (cranberries, raisins, berries), coconut and is flavored with Maple Syrup (Maple Tree) and cinnamon (the bark of a tree). This recipe makes 12 one-half cup snack bags. This recipe is great topped on Rainbow Fruit Parfaits.

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