JollyJane
08-19-2005, 09:01 PM
WOW we should get this going in schools around here.
The only one I know of is Graton's Oak Grove School,
they grow some food and re-cycle everything.
This IS THE ANSWER to Junk Food Nation problems.
Once kids know GOOD FOOD they like it.
JJ
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Delicious Revolution from Jim Hightower
EDIBLE EDUCATION
8/12/2005
Emma Goldman said she wanted no part of any revolution
unless it included dancing. That's good, but better
yet is Alice Waters' idea that a revolution should be
"delicious."
Waters – who is both a fabulous chef and a pioneer
leader of America's sustainable food movement –
believes deeply in the transformative power of having
our local communities grow, cook, and share good
meals. So she has launched what literally will be a
delicious revolution, focusing it squarely on those
who are America's future: Schoolchildren.
Ten years ago, Waters led an effort to establish what
she calls "The Edible Schoolyard" at Martin Luther
King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California, where
she has her home and restaurant. Rather than a
burger-and-soda lunch, MLK's 900 or so students now
draw meals, lessons, and values from a one-acre
schoolyard garden that they pitch in to till, plant,
maintain, and harvest. They also help prepare and
serve the food in the school cafeteria, enjoying the
bounty of their own efforts.
Not only do the children get meals that truly are good
and good for them, but they absorb more from the
garden and kitchen about biology, health, the
environment, science, history, geography, stewardship,
cooperation, and community than they can possibly
glean from texbooks and sterile classrooms.
This Edible Schoolyard has been such a success that
Waters and the Berkeley's schoolboard are expanding it
to all of the city's 16 public schools. But their
revolution involves more than a garden in ever
schoolyard – they are making lunch an academic
subject, integrating the entire food experience into
lesson plans from K through 12, thus providing rich
nourishment not only for childrens' bodies, but for
their minds and souls as well. Edible Education, they
call it.
This is Jim Hightower saying ... To learn how you can
bring this revolutionary model to your schools, call
the Chez Panisse Foundation: 510-843-3811.
"Keep These Kids From Eating Veggies? Try." New York
Times, July 6. 2005.
"Life is Art. Love is the answer." love,Eliz
We can make the world a better place. Check out www.plenty.org and
www.peaceroots.org
_______________________________________________
The only one I know of is Graton's Oak Grove School,
they grow some food and re-cycle everything.
This IS THE ANSWER to Junk Food Nation problems.
Once kids know GOOD FOOD they like it.
JJ
=======================================
Delicious Revolution from Jim Hightower
EDIBLE EDUCATION
8/12/2005
Emma Goldman said she wanted no part of any revolution
unless it included dancing. That's good, but better
yet is Alice Waters' idea that a revolution should be
"delicious."
Waters – who is both a fabulous chef and a pioneer
leader of America's sustainable food movement –
believes deeply in the transformative power of having
our local communities grow, cook, and share good
meals. So she has launched what literally will be a
delicious revolution, focusing it squarely on those
who are America's future: Schoolchildren.
Ten years ago, Waters led an effort to establish what
she calls "The Edible Schoolyard" at Martin Luther
King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California, where
she has her home and restaurant. Rather than a
burger-and-soda lunch, MLK's 900 or so students now
draw meals, lessons, and values from a one-acre
schoolyard garden that they pitch in to till, plant,
maintain, and harvest. They also help prepare and
serve the food in the school cafeteria, enjoying the
bounty of their own efforts.
Not only do the children get meals that truly are good
and good for them, but they absorb more from the
garden and kitchen about biology, health, the
environment, science, history, geography, stewardship,
cooperation, and community than they can possibly
glean from texbooks and sterile classrooms.
This Edible Schoolyard has been such a success that
Waters and the Berkeley's schoolboard are expanding it
to all of the city's 16 public schools. But their
revolution involves more than a garden in ever
schoolyard – they are making lunch an academic
subject, integrating the entire food experience into
lesson plans from K through 12, thus providing rich
nourishment not only for childrens' bodies, but for
their minds and souls as well. Edible Education, they
call it.
This is Jim Hightower saying ... To learn how you can
bring this revolutionary model to your schools, call
the Chez Panisse Foundation: 510-843-3811.
"Keep These Kids From Eating Veggies? Try." New York
Times, July 6. 2005.
"Life is Art. Love is the answer." love,Eliz
We can make the world a better place. Check out www.plenty.org and
www.peaceroots.org
_______________________________________________