As a member of Farm to Early Childhood Education (ECE) we have a different approach in both our learning and also in the way our menu is prepared and the food we serve. 
What is Farm to ECE you Ask? Great question!  Farm to ECE is a part of the National Farm to School Network that focuses just on ages birth through 5 years of age (up until they start Kindergarten).  It focuses on getting children started in establishing better nutrition in hopes to help fight the rise in childhood obesity.  It teaches them how to grow their own food and recognized healthy vs less healthy foods.  

Doing our part

Our owner/director is a farm girl born and raised and brings a wealth of knowledge to the table when it comes to healthier living, growing, and eating.  Pairing her knowledge with the Early Sprouts Curriculum we begin teaching little minds not only the how but also the why on good nutrition and sustainability.







Our playground includes a large classroom garden which our students help plant, grow, care for, harvest, and enjoy.  
In spring the students will plant a variety of fruits and vegetables from seed and continue to water and weed and care for the plants until they are mature and begin bearing foods.  You will find things like beans, peas, tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries, leafy green, onion, peppers, potatoes and much more.  The students then pick these foods and they are taken to our kitchen where our cook cleans, prepares, and serves the harvest for lunch.  
In addition to serving these fresh from the garden foods all of our other menu food are made from scratch right in our kitchen, right down to our homemade soups and casseroles.  We also serve fresh seasonal fruits from local farms and markets.






All of the beef that is served in our lunches even comes from our owners very own personal farm.  Our owner raises grass fed, antibiotic and hormone free, angus beef cattle and the beef is processed at a local butcher shop before it arrives at our center.







You will also find fresh scrambled eggs on our breakfast menu weekly.  These eggs come fresh from the coop daily, yes DAILY. Our playground is also home to our very own classroom coop.  In our preschool classroom you will find that each student has their very own garden boots they use in our garden but also in the chicken coop.  One of the classroom helper jobs is egg collector.  Each day 2 students get to go into the coop and feed and water the chickens in addition to collecting the eggs from the coop.  Afterwards they remove their boots and under teacher supervision clean their hands with hand sanitizer.  The eggs are then taken to the kitchen where our cook cleans and then refrigerates the eggs until their use