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Celebrating Farm-to-School with The Henry Ford at Michelle Obama School: A Local, Organic Lunch for the Next Generation

By / Community, WCCUSD

Conscious Kitchen, in collaboration with The Alice Waters Institute, proudly welcomed The Henry Ford to Michelle Obama School in the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) for the culminating event of their Farm to School Lunch Across America campaign. This impactful initiative champions the importance of locally sourced, seasonal, and regeneratively farmed organic school …

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Feeding the Future: Organic School Meals Take Root in Sonoma

By / Community

On a sunny October day in Sonoma County, Conscious Kitchen and The Alice Waters Institute, in partnership with Shared Plate Strategies, hosted a transformative Fresh, Local, Organic Culinary Workshop at the breathtaking Scribe Winery. This regional event brought together food service leaders from across Sonoma and surrounding counties, alongside local organic farmers and purveyors, for …

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Celebrating a Historic Leap for Better Breakfasts: CEREAL-ously ORGANIC

By / Community, Equity and Justice, WCCUSD

After 2+ years of collaboration, innovation, and dedication to shifting the paradigm around school food, Conscious Kitchen, Nature’s Path, and West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) made history through a collaborative effort to radically transform a breakfast staple at schools across the nation. On May 2nd, we hosted CEREAL-ously ORGANIC at Michelle Obama Elementary …

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Virtual Farm Tour: Frog Hollow Farm

By / Community, Profiles

Turning Green’s summer interns have had the exceptional pleasure of learning about sustainability and environmental justice from a new guest speaker every week, and now we’ve been given a virtual farm tour! This tour was led by our most recent guest speaker, the legendary Farmer Al Courchesne of Frog Hollow Farm in Brentwood, California. With …

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture & CA First Partner Pay Conscious Kitchen a Visit 

By / Community, Equity and Justice, WCCUSD

We are always proud of our work with Conscious Kitchen! What a joy to share our organic school food program in person with top leaders across our country for National School Breakfast Week. USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Congressman John Garamendi, and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond joined Conscious …

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Make Your Coffee More Sustainable

By / Equity and Justice

Coffee is an essential part of many people’s daily routines, but it doesn’t always have the most positive environmental impact. 9.5 billion kg of coffee is produced each year, and that number is increasing. Growing and harvesting conventional coffee consumes large amounts of energy, water, and land, causing a loss of biodiversity. Transporting beans produces carbon …

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