Fall 2017 Growing Healthy Kids Class

Deseray of Hope for Families Center works on chopping some red onion. Debbie Avery/For Luminaries

Emily West of VBHS Interact Club helps Ashlee wash some strawberries. Debbie Avery/For Luminaries

The Growing Healthy Kids students worked from this menu for the "snack" class. Debbie Avery/For Luminaries

Hope for Families Center children Ashlee and Kiera learn to grate carrots during a Growing Healthy Kids session in fall 2017. Debbie Avery/For Luminaries

Hope for Families Center student Ayva, second from left, works on post-nutrition surveys with Youth Guidance students, from left, Ciarra, Chaquanne and Q'ulanne as part of the Growing Healthy Kids "Nutrition Scientist" class. Barbara duPont/For Luminaries

Deseray and Travis, children with the Hope for Families Center, are taught to cut and squeeze a lime by Nancy Heinrich, Growing Healthy Kids founder, as Pam O'Donnell, of Sunrise Rotary Club, looks on. Barbara duPont/For Luminaries

Kevin O'Dare, right, of Osceola Organic Farm, gives students from Youth Guidance and Hope for Families Center a tour of an orange grove. Barbara duPont/For Luminaries

During a recent tour of Osceola Organic Farm, farmer Kevin O'Dare gives the students from Youth Guidance and Hope for Families Center seedlings as part of the "Nutrition Scientist" program taught by Nancy Heinrich, a Growing Healthy Kids founder. Members of the Sunrise Rotary Club and VBHS Interact Club served as mentors to the children. Barbara duPont/For Luminaries

Members of the fall 2017 Growing Healthy Kids class are, from left, Jaida, of Hope for Families Center; Nancy Heinrich, Growing Healthy Kids founder; Morgan Minton and Raegan Gibbons, of VBHS Interact Club; Travis, of Hope for Families Center; Jason West and Emily West, of VBHS Interact Club; Deseray and Ayva, of Hope for Families Center; Anja Boch; Kiera of Hope for Families Center; Molly Metcalf, of VBHS Interact Club; and Ashlee, of Hope for Families Center. Anja Boch was a New Generations Vocational Exchange student from Germany who stayed with Sunrise Rotary members during her eight-week work exchange. Debbie Avery/For Luminaries

Kevin O'Dare of Osceola Organic Farm hands seedlings to the students from Youth Guidance and Hope for Families Center during a tour of the farm, along with members and mentors from the Sunrise Rotary Club and the Vero Beach High School Interact Club. Barbara duPont/For Luminaries

Kevin O'Dare takes the children from Youth Guidance and Hope for Families Center on a tour of Osceola Organic Farm with members of Sunrise Rotary Club and Vero Beach High School Interact Club members serving as mentors. Barbara duPont/For Luminaries

Fall 2017 Growing Healthy Kids class, from left, Maggie Harding, Hope for Families Center children's program specialist; Linda Scott, executive director of St. Francis Manor; Ayva, of Hope for Families Center; Chaquanne and Q'ulanne, of Youth Guidance; Dr. Rick Root of Sunrise Rotary; Ashlee, of Hope for Families Center; Santa Claus; Jennifer of Vero Beach High School Interact Club; Barb duPont of Sunrise Rotary; Deseray and Kiera of Hope for Families Center; Ciarra of Youth Guidance; and Anja Boch, a New Generations Vocational Exchange student from Germany; Nancy Heinrich, of Growing Healthy Kids Inc. and Pam O'Donnell, of Sunrise Rotary. Debbie Avery/For Luminaries