EDIBLE SOCIAL STUDIES

Our school-day Edible Social Studies program is housed at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, a public elementary school in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro District.

Edible Social Studies is designed to help students make a personal connection to the arc of human history and culture. Each grade-level unit is aligned with the California Department of Education’s History-Social Science Framework. From learning in transitional kindergarten about seasonal produce to eating our way through the history of San Francisco in third grade to considering how our food choices affect climate change in fifth grade, cooking and eating together is a powerful way to bring the academic content standards to life.

No matter the grade, our conversations in the kitchen classroom center around the work that has come before us and the work we must continue to do to achieve food justice and food sovereignty for all people.