Midwest Food Connection

Food connects us all.

Midwest Food Connection inspires young people to deepen their relationship with food in ways that benefit their bodies, their communities, and the earth.

For more than 25 years, Midwest Food Connection has been in classrooms across Minnesota’s Twin Cities, bringing engaging food education to students in grades K-8. Through classroom teaching combined with hands-on activities like cooking, gardening, and art, children learn about fresh foods and get excited about making healthy food choices.

Our school year programming educates thousands of students each year on topics like locally grown foods, food conservation, and urban farming - and we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for our students. We’re currently working with Hmong and Indigenous partners in the community to expand the cultural diversity of our curriculum, allowing students to make connections to their own cultural food traditions or learn new ones.

Through our programming and presence in the community, we are working to end the cycle of food insecurity, perpetuated by discriminative food marketing tactics and economic inequality. We believe that everyone should have access to healthy food. 

Help us continue to reach students with transformative food education by making a donation for Give to the Max 2024. 

Learn more about what we do on our website and keep up with what we currently working on through Instagram and Facebook.