Bringing Hands-On
Food
Education
To the Next Generation
What We Do
The Charlie Cart Project equips the next generation with the knowledge and confidence to make healthy food choices through hands-on cooking. We partner with educators and community organizations to provide everything they need to get kids cooking.
We provide schools and community organizations with their own portable, compact mobile kitchen, along with all the tools, lessons, recipes and support needed to build a comprehensive food education program.
Our kitchen on wheels is fully stocked with top of the line equipment perfect for little hands. And it all stows away for easy storage and transport.
We provide a 54-lesson, standards-aligned curriculum that explores taste, exposes students to new foods, and builds skills and confidence.
Members of our network get access to a full suite of training support and monthly programming to help them make the most of their cart.
Who is using the Charlie Cart Project?
Educators from across the country are using the Charlie Cart Project to transform lives with hands-on food education.
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Michael Pollan | Author, Journalist, Charlie Cart Project Advisor“The Charlie Cart Project brings tasty, joyful, healthy experiences with food to classrooms, libraries, food banks, and hospitals, ensuring kids everywhere have an opportunity to learn healthy food habits for life. -
Alice Waters | Restaurateur, Founder of the Edible Schoolyard, Charlie Cart Project Advisor“When cooking is integrated into the curriculum, academic subjects come alive, and students absorb their lessons effortlessly through all their senses. -
Harold McGee | Author, Charlie Cart Project Advisor“Cooking is the most natural - and fun - way to help kids understand science and many other academic subjects. The Charlie Cart Project has the potential to make this kind of real world knowledge accessible to all kids. -
Dominica Rice | Chef, Activist, Charlie Cart Project Advisor“As someone who started cooking as a child, I honor Charlie Cart’s integrated educational program that connects children to food and cooking. I am privileged to help lay the foundation for the next generation of gourmands through my work with the Charlie Cart Project.
