Conscious Kitchen addresses food equity, education, and access by shifting the paradigm around school food service, while cultivating a local, ecological food system, and building nutrition literacy into meals. Through a collaborative, replicable approach, Conscious Kitchen partners with schools and communities to break the cycle of conventional, packaged, overly processed food, transitioning to meals based on five foundational attributes: fresh, local, organic, seasonal, nutritious.
Conscious Kitchen activates school kitchens as hubs for community resilience, while nourishing the minds and bodies of the next generation. With a belief in school-supported agriculture as a powerful tool to address climate change and promote human and environmental health, Conscious Kitchen designs and builds local, resilient food systems that connect organic farmers, providers and schools to benefit our children, soils, planet and future.
Conscious Kitchen created the first organic school district shortly after launching in 2013, which thrives to this day across the Sausalito Marin City School District. During pandemic school closures, Conscious Kitchen scaled and partnered with the West Contra Costa Unified School District to source, pack and distribute over 10.7 million pounds of organic food for 18.7 million meals for children, directly investing over $17 million into local economies and organic food businesses. shifting proteins, grains, dairy, produce and other ingredients for up to 644,000 meals per week — a commitment to the health and wellbeing of people and planet that has not wavered.
Conscious Kitchen continues to develop and successfully implement viable organic supply chains for institutional purchasing and strengthen organic procurement from farm to school — with workshops, resources, and programs for breakfast, lunch and more.
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