Interested in gaining an in-depth understanding on a new or favorite topic? There are lots of on-going or mulitple day courses offered around DC, many of which are free! Check out the organizations below offering courses about food access and nutrition. (Please note for one-time or one day workshops information is available under the “Individual Workshops” category; workshops and courses are also often included on DUG’s Events Calendar.)
Brainfood
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
Centro Ashé
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
The mission of the MPH program in Public Health Nutrition at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (SPH) is to develop and train graduate students to integrate nutrition into the core of public health practice. The program encompasses a social ecological perspective to the role of nutrition in the etiology, prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic disease at the individual, community, national and global levels.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future works with students, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocacy organizations and communities to build a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system. At the Center for a Livable Future we explore how public health, diet, food production, and the environment shape our daily lives and our future, and how they face constant pressures from population growth, lack of equity, resource depletion, and climate disruption.
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Specific Information on Courses
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
The Washington Institute of Natural Medicine is a natural health care center offering natural health care to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that offers herbalist classes and services.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine - Specific Information on Courses
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
The mission of the MPH program in Public Health Nutrition at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (SPH) is to develop and train graduate students to integrate nutrition into the core of public health practice. The program encompasses a social ecological perspective to the role of nutrition in the etiology, prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic disease at the individual, community, national and global levels.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future works with students, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocacy organizations and communities to build a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system. At the Center for a Livable Future we explore how public health, diet, food production, and the environment shape our daily lives and our future, and how they face constant pressures from population growth, lack of equity, resource depletion, and climate disruption.
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Specific Information on Courses
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
The Washington Institute of Natural Medicine is a natural health care center offering natural health care to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that offers herbalist classes and services.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine - Specific Information on Courses
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
The mission of the MPH program in Public Health Nutrition at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (SPH) is to develop and train graduate students to integrate nutrition into the core of public health practice. The program encompasses a social ecological perspective to the role of nutrition in the etiology, prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic disease at the individual, community, national and global levels.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future works with students, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocacy organizations and communities to build a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system. At the Center for a Livable Future we explore how public health, diet, food production, and the environment shape our daily lives and our future, and how they face constant pressures from population growth, lack of equity, resource depletion, and climate disruption.
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Specific Information on Courses
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
The Washington Institute of Natural Medicine is a natural health care center offering natural health care to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that offers herbalist classes and services.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine - Specific Information on Courses
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
The mission of the MPH program in Public Health Nutrition at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (SPH) is to develop and train graduate students to integrate nutrition into the core of public health practice. The program encompasses a social ecological perspective to the role of nutrition in the etiology, prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic disease at the individual, community, national and global levels.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future works with students, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocacy organizations and communities to build a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system. At the Center for a Livable Future we explore how public health, diet, food production, and the environment shape our daily lives and our future, and how they face constant pressures from population growth, lack of equity, resource depletion, and climate disruption.
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Specific Information on Courses
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
The Washington Institute of Natural Medicine is a natural health care center offering natural health care to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that offers herbalist classes and services.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine - Specific Information on Courses
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
The mission of the MPH program in Public Health Nutrition at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (SPH) is to develop and train graduate students to integrate nutrition into the core of public health practice. The program encompasses a social ecological perspective to the role of nutrition in the etiology, prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic disease at the individual, community, national and global levels.
George Washington University Public Health Nutrition Program
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future works with students, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocacy organizations and communities to build a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system. At the Center for a Livable Future we explore how public health, diet, food production, and the environment shape our daily lives and our future, and how they face constant pressures from population growth, lack of equity, resource depletion, and climate disruption.
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Specific Information on Courses
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
The Washington Institute of Natural Medicine is a natural health care center offering natural health care to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that offers herbalist classes and services.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine - Specific Information on Courses
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
The Washington Institute of Natural Medicine is a natural health care center offering natural health care to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that offers herbalist classes and services.
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
Natural Health School, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine - Specific Information on Courses
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
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