Teaching the Next Generation & Making Them Climate Leaders
The Power of Food: Teaching the Next Generation
Every student who learns how their plate connects to the planet carries that lesson for life. Our education program turns science-backed nutrition and climate facts into lessons kids actually remember.
From classroom toolkits to school assemblies, we're helping the next generation see food as one of the most powerful tools they have — for their own health, and for the planet's.
Why We Start With Kids
Students are living through a health and climate crisis shaped by what's on their plates — and they're old enough to understand it, and young enough to change it.
Inside the Power of Food Program
A hands-on, science-based curriculum built to meet students where they already are — in the classroom, the lunchroom, and the community.
A science-based classroom toolkit that connects nutrition, biology, and climate science — ready to drop into any middle or high school science class.
We work directly with student-led green clubs to bring plant-based education into everyday school life, not just a single lesson.
From single classroom visits to full-school assemblies, our team speaks directly to students, teachers, and parent groups about the power of their plates.
Hands-on plant-based tastings at school and community festivals turn healthy eating from an abstract idea into something fun and memorable.
Your Gift Educates the Next Generation
For as little as $3 a month, you can help bring the Power of Food program to a new classroom — giving students the tools to protect their health and their planet, one lesson at a time.
Plant the Future
Small seeds. Big change. $1 a month.
This is the exact program your gift powers. For just $1 a month, you help bring plant-based food and climate education into Baltimore classrooms — starting at City Springs Elementary/Middle School and Parkville Middle School — and help raise the next generation of climate leaders. Join thousands of others in the $1 Generation.
Will you be the reason the next classroom says yes? It only takes $1 — and every gift gets this program one step closer to the student who needs it most.
Join the $1 Generation →Our founder, Jane DeMarines, built the Power of Food program on a simple belief: real change starts with the next generation understanding the power they hold at every meal.