Starting With Soil

Whole Kids Foundation is on a mission to improve children’s nutrition by inspiring, educating, and empowering kids to make better food choices. And that’s why we embrace Organic Education - to help kids understand where their food comes from and to share with families how organic values are connected to the food they eat.

That’s also why we’ve developed Starting with Soil - a pad-based educational experience that makes essential connections between our food and the natural world. Designed for families with children around the ages of 7-9 years old, Starting with Soil focuses on the role of topsoil in supporting healthy food and a healthy environment. With our development partner, the Center for Ecoliteracy, we’re working to provide a unique and beautiful learning experience that advances Whole Kids Foundation’s presence and contribution to Organic Education.

We want to show that soil - which children might consider to be useless dirt under their feet - is a living system full of healthy, reciprocal, and fascinating relationships. How do those relationships connect to our health? How does life thrive on what was once bare rock? What role do insects and animals play? How does all this connect to the food on my plate? Starting with Soil will explore these questions through animation, video, sound, and interactivity.

We believe that providing engaging and original Organic Education experiences like Starting with Soil can have a huge impact on kids. We hope that kids will get excited about fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and other nutritious foods. We know that by educating and empowering kids, their families, and their communities, we can transform this generation’s eating habits, and ignite future generations with the knowledge that kids make good choices when their education is Organic.