Seed to Plate
Welcome to Seed to Plate!
What is Seed to Plate?
Seed to Plate is a nutrition and environmental education program!
As a class, we will participate in a variety of activities including a farm visit, virtual Greenmarket tour, in-class cooking demonstrations and several tastings of delicious farm fresh foods.
These fun, hands-on activities will help us understand more about how all the food we begins as a seed and transforms to the food on our plates.
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Greenmarkets
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GrowNYC’s Goals
Bring fresh, delicious food to New Yorkers
Help preserve farmland in our region of the Northeastern United States
Greenmarket currently operates over 50 farmer’s markets in NYC
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Health
Local Economy
Access
Farmers have tough and demanding jobs, but their occupation has the wonderful pay off of producing some of the best quality food there is!
Greenmarkets provide our farmers with a place to sell their products to New Yorkers so their farms can stay in business, and provide people like you and me with amazing food.
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The Food System
What is it?
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Food System
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Food system is a way to describe all the steps involved in getting food onto our plates.
This curriculum is called Seed to Plate because you will be learning about the actions that take place from the time farmers plant seeds until the food is on our plates and ready for us to eat.
Food System
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Let’s brainstorm about the steps involved in providing us all with food:
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Does food just magically appear on your plate or in packages in your kitchen at home? Of course not!
Food System
1. Growing
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2. Harvesting
3. Processing
4. Transforming
5. Changing
Let’s brainstorm about the steps involved in providing us all with food:
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9. Consuming
10. Disposing of food and food packages
Does food just magically appear on your plate or in packages in your kitchen at home? Of course not!
Let’s Explore:
Apple Cider Food System
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Let’s Explore: Apple Cider Food System
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The food system applies to everything we eat and drink!
Let’s Explore: Apple Cider Food System
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What do you think the first step was in the process of producing this jug of apple cider?
Most foods we eat (plant-based) are produced from a seed.
Let’s Explore: Apple Cider Food System
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Name all of the steps, from “seed to cup,” of this jug of apple cider.
Step 1: Growing
Apple seeds are planted in the ground
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Growing
Farmers provide care for young apple trees, or seedlings, in their orchard (fruit tree farm) by watering and pruning them as they grow to keep them healthy and strong
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Step 2: Harvesting
Ripe apples are harvested, or picked, from trees or up from the ground after they’ve fallen
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Step 3: Processing
The cider is produced by crushing lots of apples in a cider press and straining off the juice made (nothing else is added).
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Step 4: Packaging
The cider is packaged in bottles with the farm’s name labeled on them.
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Step 5: Transporting
Farmers transport the cider in trucks from the farm to be sold at the Greenmarket
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Step 6: Marketing
Farmers sell cider to customers at the Greenmarket
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Customers purchase cider at the Greenmarket
Step 7: Consuming
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Friends consume apple cider together!
Consuming
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Step 8: Disposing
The empty plastic bottle is recycled
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Apple Cider Tasting!
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Think about:�
Where does this apple cider come from?
Do you eat apples at home?
What does apple cider taste like?
What else can you make with apples?
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Apple Cider
Apple Juice
Which Do You Like Better? Let’s Vote!
Seed to Plate Steps Activity
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In groups or by yourself - pick a food or drink that you would like to trace the seed to plate steps of.
I am tracing the Seed to Plate steps of: ��
Seed to Plate Steps Activity
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I am tracing the Seed to Plate steps of: ��_________________________________________________
Draw pictures to illustrate the steps this product undergoes from seed to your plate or cup. Then, next to the numbers below, write out a sentence to describe each step you have drawn.
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Questions?
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Seed to Plate is brought to you by . . .
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We are GrowNYC
We protect the environment, create green spaces, help people stay healthy, and give them opportunity to make a positive impact.
We make it easy for you to have a positive impact.
We are providing outreach and education to increase participation in the city’s zero waste programs and help conserve natural resources.
We are transforming our regional food system and ensuring that all New Yorkers have access to the freshest, healthiest local food.
We are fostering future environmental stewards by providing thousands of children and adults with opportunities for meaningful interactions with the natural environment.
We are bringing more green space to our city by building and rejuvenating community and school gardens.
Conservation
Education
Green Spaces
Food Access and Agriculture
Our Work
Sophia Leon�sleon@grownyc.org
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www.grownyc.org
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