Dear Parents:

We applied for and received a grant that is funded through USDA’s food stamp program. Our goal is to increase the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables we serve to your children. We will be trying to use as many vegetables and fruits that the children have grown in our garden as well as purchasing fresh produce from the Farmer’s Market. We have hired a prep cook who will work on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday preparing our healthy snacks. On Fridays, we invite you to join us for snack so you can sample what we are serving. We will also be providing recipes for you to take home.

Also every Friday, from 2:00 – 6:00, the Chapmantown Food & Fitness Festival takes place. It is a year-round Farmer’s Market that is located in front of Chapman school on Cleveland. A free garden produce exchange takes place as well. We hope to take some walks with the children over to the market. You are welcome to come along if you like or check it out on your own.

I have attached a short survey that we will be using for grant purposes. Please fill it out and return it to a teacher in your child’s program.

Thanks! If you have any questions, you can come by the office or call me at 891-5363.



Sue McGuire

On Sunday March 22nd from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM there will be a family gardening event with gardening experts from the local group "Growing Resourcefully - Uniting Bellies" or GRUB - doing a hands-on workshop in the CCCC Kids Garden.

This event is open to the public but you must sign up ASAP as room is limited.

Call 891-5363 to reserve your spot. There is no fee for this event - but donations are always accepted. Checks should be made out to "Chico Community Children's Center".

Chico Community Children's Center is proud to be a part of the Annie B's community fund raising effort. To donate just click on the link below and you will be directed to the Annie B's site. Thank you for your interest and support.

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Kids and staff have fun at the endagnered species fair.

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Growing Healthy Kids is the title of a workshop to be held on Thursday November 8th at the Chico Grange Hall 2775 (Old) Nord Avenue. (Directions: Turn North off of W. East Avenue - 1/2 block west of the Masonic Family Center - near the railroad tracts. Go straight for several blocks through the orchards. Grange Hall is on the left.)

Feature Speaker
Dr. Cindy Wolff, Director of Opt for Fit Kids.

Additional Speakers/Demonstrators

Danielle Baker, Butte County Ag Extension Master Gardener Instructor & Garden Composter
Debra Abbott, Gardens in the Classroom After-School Teacher
Eartha Shanti, Nutrition Activist, Instructor, and the Evening’s Chef

Feature Video Presentation
“The Greatest Diet on Earth”
by Dr. Joel Fuhrman,
author of Disease Proof Your Child.

Dinner Tickets are $5.00 for adults (Children under 12 free).

From 5:30 pm until 8:30 – Dinner at 6:00 pm
At the Chico Grange Hall – 2775 (Old) Nord Avenue

Purchase tickets in advance by November 6th. Children under 12 are free but tickets must be reserved. Bring your kids! This is a child friendly event!

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Following up on the work done by Target employees a couple weeks ago, 8 volunteers from CAVE attacked the garden digging and pulling up weeds, planting peas and beans and the fall vegetable garden plants donated by Hodges Nursery. They worked a transformation on the garden and put down pathways to keep the kids out of the mud when the rain starts. They also collected and stacked brush from fall pruning of trees around the buildings and carted old construction materials to the dumpster.
Participating in the effort were:

Caily McElhinney - Liberal Studies Major
Bryce Fingudo - History Major
Aaron Karp - History Major
Jenae Laws - Psychology Major
Aaron Skaggs - Political Science Major
Michelle Loew - Communication Studies Major
Monica Hitchcock - Journalism Major
Brandon Lodge - Legal Studies Major

Many thanks go out to them from Chico Community Children's Center for there great work and spirit. We had fun and much appreciate the results on behalf of the center's Kids Nutritional Garden.

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Lisa displays the latest in vegie start donations from Hodges Nursery. Hodges Nursery has donated over a dozen fruit trees and several flats of vegies to the Chico Community Children's Center Gardens at both Elm and Eaton sites.

Hodges Nursery is located near Durham on the west side of the Midway. We would like to thank the owners and staff of Hodges Nursery for their ongoing support of our Kids' Garden Nutrition Project.

They specialize in 160 Varieties Of Fruit Tress, 5 Acres Of Trees, Citrus Trees, Fruit, Fertilizer, Groundcovers, Grasses, Nursery Containers, Nursery Containers, Perennials, Shade Trees, Shrubs, Shrubs, Water Plants

Hours: Mon-Sat 8:30am-5:00pm

Hodges Nursery & Tree Farm
9681 Midway
Durham, CA 95938

Tel: 530-894-6598

Upcoming Nutrition program for Parents, Teachers, and Child Care Providers.

Growing Healthy Kids: A Professional Growth Dinner and Workshop for Parents, Teachers, and Child Care Providers

The date for the event is Thursday November 8th from 4:00 pm until 10:00 at the Chico Grange. 2775 Nord Avenue.

Volunteers from the Chico Target Store converged on the parking lot of Chico Community Children's Center this Saturday ripping, clipping and tearing into the vegetation, compost, mulch and sand piles and finally leaving the Children's garden and parking lot landscaping looking and feeling as if it had just received a much needed scrubbing.

Setting things to right were the following

The Produce Swap is organized by Jeremy Miller from the Community Organic Garden Project. It changes locations every week - but this week it occurred at the Elm Street Center. Here teachers Jennifer and Abby and children take some looks and samples and fruit. We had okra, peaches, figs, squash, apples, greens, rubarb, pluots tomatoes and more.

Robert McAnulty and Harmony Janeway are big supporters of the swap. For more photos click on "read more" below.