Hospital-Based Nutrition, Garden, and culinary Education Programs

Unlike traditional outpatient education classes, Trees, Bees, and Peas has created an educational model that brings a person’s learning to life.  It starts with a seed, connects fauna and flora to food, and transitions harvests into culinary creations. The result, is an experiential learning experience that connects human and planetary health, and treats lifestyle induced medical conditions with food as thy medicine.    

Healthcare organizations who seek to design alternative, yet highly effective learning models, have the opportunity to develop an integrated culinary, gardening, and nutrition program. A comprehensive step-by-step guide is now available and informs stakeholders interested in exploring hands-on health education programs. The guide focuses on organic and sustainable gardening principles, and supports a whole foods, plant forward diet.

The current assessment of hospital patient health education programs is that there is a missed opportunity to provide more effective, innovative, evidence-based practice (EBP) programs.  A successful program should strive for positive long-term planetary and human health rather than short sighted patient health outcomes.

The program helps hospitals develop an intervention that blends together three domains necessary to activate learning into action.  It includes multiple context, collaborative, and experiential patient-centric learning.  The guide is available for a one time purchase or can be licensed yearly, which includes curriculum updates with the latest evidence-based information. 

Alternatively, Trees, Bees, and Peas also offers consultation services to help a hospital implement the program.  For more information and a sneak peek of the guide, please contact us.

Listen now, to The Capstone podcast, where Founder Sherri Pinero discusses her innovative Capstone project, a guide to creating a hospital-based edible educational garden, framed around nutrition and culinary programs!