An integration of the Empowered Holistic Nursing Education theory in practice at the Sustainable Farm School - teaching nutrition from an integrative and sustainable pedagogy to 9-14 year olds.

1. Creating Healthful and Healing Learning
Environments Through Ecojustice Pedagogy:
A Holistic Nutrition Course Through EHNE

2. Empowered
Empoweer
Holistic Nursing
Education

3. Ecojustice Education
 Focuses on shared responsibility
 Engages students and teachers
 Creative spaces
 EXAMPLE: Holistic Nutrition Course
 (9-13 year olds)
 Sustainable Farm School
 Make food, discuss nutrition, hear origin stories, eat!

4. 
Commons: religion/culture,
Home/School: family structure,
influence of friends on their lived experiences, SFS
environment and student developed code of
conduct.
 Community/Culture: religion/culture, multiple-
identities, hobbies, elders, interaction of students
with communities (school locations, visits, teachers)
 Environment: outside in woods, fields, farms,
gardens, city spaces, neighborhood. Exploration of
global interconnectedness and the internal
environment of the body as an ecosystem
interacting with the world.

5. Revitalizing the Cultural
Commons
 Sharing origin stories of foods!
 Origins of the coconut (While
making Jamaican Coconut Rice
and Beans)
 Philippines: God of creation, Snake God of sky, God
with winged head.
 Myanmar: Gon-bin “mischief maker”

6. Nutritional
Science
•
Landscape, clothes/mats,
fronds: brooms,/baskets/roofs,
fuel, wood for
houses/boats/instruments, bug
repellant, planting material, roots
for dysentery, religion/ceremony,
vinegar, alcohol.
•
All 9 essential AA, and 17 of the
21 AA, water, electrolytes,
saturated fat, fiber, vitamins,
anti-viral, anti-bacterial, easily
digested, low GI.

7. Ecojustice
Understanding food labels :

What does “natural” mean?

When can it be put on a
label?

What is Natamycin and why
is it only approved for the
wax coating of cheeses in
Europe?

What’s wrong with the color
of cheese?

What is the impact of this
label on people in poverty,
LLP, or less educated
people?

8. What do we get out of
it?
 A deep appreciation for the meaning of the situation
and brings together all the elements to make a
meaningful whole.
 The local, global, and learning communities all offer
the teacher/students experiences of transformative
learning and gaining a holistic appreciation of the
interconnectedness of the natural world.
 Ties together the health of our communities and
developing a skill set toward achieving what is most
healthful for communities.