Midwest Food Connection

Midwest Food Connections teaches about food in Northeast schools. Their educators visit classrooms to cook, garden, and taste test healthy foods with kids.

Food connects us with each other, our planet, and ourselves. Midwest Food Connection inspires young people to deepen their relationship with food, benefiting their bodies, their communities, and the earth.

We believe everyone should have the ability and opportunity to grow and consume healthful, affordable, and culturally relevant foods. Our educators visits school classrooms in Northeast Minneapolis and around the Metro, changing habits and attitudes towards food for a lifetime of good eating.

Midwest Food Connection teaches hands-on lessons to students in K-8 classrooms. we teach at Waite Park, Webster, New City, Pillsbury and Marcy Schools.  

Our food education:

• Excites youth about healthy eating and developing a love for wholesome, locally grown foods.

• Empowers youth to take care of the earth by becoming good stewards of the environment.

• Equips youth with the life skills of cooking, gardening, shopping wisely, and thinking critically about food systems.

Seedlings donations will provide exciting, practical, and interactive lessons about healthful eating to children at schools near Eastside.  We will grow our relationships with these schools, offer our programs free of charge, and collaborate with classroom teachers.

Seedlings donations will cover these specific expenses:

• Food and teaching supplies for our work

• Salaries for our food educators

• Educational events at school community events and at Eastside Co-op

We are particularly excited about a new curriculum we have drafted. It allows us to teach in depth about the food traditions of the Indigenous and Hmong people of Minnesota.