SwitchOn! issue 1.3 | Page 53

The Food School is a non-profit advocate of food education, local farmers, and food justice on the Front Range in USA. The Food School’s mission is to engage, educate, and empower students in ways that provide them with essential life skills, connect them to place, and help them understand how food choices affect their health, the environment, and their communities. They connect individual PSD classrooms with local farmers and gardeners with in walking/biking distance. Classes make return visits throughout an 8 week period, increasing the meaningfulness of the experience, improving overall learning, and building stronger connections to the sources of their food and the communit