Teaching urban Head Start youth about where food comes from and that what they eat is important was a great challenge. A greater challenge was teaching them how food was prepared. They learned that fruits and vegetables start off as a seed, grow into plants, produce fruits and vegetables, and then is sent to the grocery store before it ends up on their table at home.
Twenty Head Start youth learned to make orange juice in a workshop. First, they were taught about the vitamins and nutrients that oranges provide. Second, they learned where and how oranges grow. Third, they learned how to use their sense of smell and touch the senses of smell and touch. And fourth, each of the youth tasted the orange juice and talked about other ways they could eat or use an orange. The youth loved the class because they had no idea that they could make orange juice.