The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio is creating a 2.4-acre teaching garden adjacent to the kitchen

Children’s Hospital of San Antonio is partnering with the Culinary Institute of America-San Antonio to establish a teaching kitchen at the downtown hospital to offer nutrition and cooking courses to patients and the community. Photo by Edward A. Ornelas / San Antonio Express-News.

The teaching kitchen and garden will be the first of their kind at a children’s hospital in San Antonio

By Jessica Belasco
San Antonio Express-News
June 4, 2014

Excerpt:

The teaching kitchen will be instrumental in teaching the community the awareness of the relationship between food and health, he said.

The organic vegetable and herb garden, designed by Overland Partners Architects and Co’Design, will bring “the healing work of nature” to the downtown campus for patients and families to learn, play and meditate, said John Bel, president of the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio Foundation.

The Children’s Hospital will team up with community organizations including the YMCA of Greater San Antonio, KIPP Academy, the San Antonio Food Bank and Good Samaritan Community Services to pilot health and nutrition curriculum and workshops.

“This innovative program, we feel, can put San Antonio on the forefront of culinary medicine in the United States,” said Pat Carrier, president and chief executive officer of Christus Santa Rosa Health System, which owns the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio.

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