Sacramento is America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital. Our region has been an agricultural powerhouse for centuries, boasting a year-round growing season, ideal climate and a mouth-watering bounty of crops. Yet, 40% of Sacramento kids suffer from childhood obesity & only 4% of kids eat enough vegetables daily. The solution: food literacy.
Team up with other Global Shapers and help
Food Literacy Center’s Food Geniuses teach a free, hands-on tasting and cooking class for low-income kids and families set in
Oak Park Sol’s beautiful community garden, Broadway Sol, in the heart of the community of Oak Park, South Sacramento. You’ll teach kids and families how to measure, chop, and make a healthy snack!
The cooking class will be preceded by a short conversation facilitated by:
- Amber Stott, Founding Executive Director, Food Literacy Center
- Randy Stannard, Executive Director, Oak Park Sol
- Food Literacy Center’s AmeriCorps Food Geniuses
Shapers will assist the Food Literacy Center’s Food Geniuses, or lead teachers, with a hands-on cooking class for low-income children and families located in the community of Oak Park, South Sacramento.
