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The Edible Schoolyard
School Lunch Initiative
Program Replication
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Overview
The Chez Panisse Foundation seeks to change the way children eat. Rather than tell them what not to eat, we want to bring them into a new relationship with food. When children grow and prepare fresh, healthy food themselves, every day, they choose nourishing meals and learn responsibilities and values.

Like physical education programs-established forty years ago in response to a presidential commission concerned about the fitness of our nation's youth-food education and ecology must become a part of every child's education. The Foundation has developed a four-part strategy to achieve this vision.

We are not currently making grants to organizations other than our programs and/or program affiliates. See our FAQ for more information.

Part 1: The Edible Schoolyard
Create working garden, kitchen, and dining classrooms that provide experiential learning about food. Learn more >

Part 2: The School Lunch Initiative
Develop a comprehensive strategy to change district-wide meal programs by integrating changes in the curriculum and transforming the quality of school food. Learn more >

Part 3: Program Replication
Document our work to provide a valuable learning and resource model that can be replicated in schools and districts nationwide. Learn more >