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Mar 13 2009 - 4:15pm Alice Waters has been making waves in the food industry lately, so many that
she's appearing on 60 Minutes this Sunday. Along with other prominent foodies, she's strongly urging
President Obama to promote local, sustainable eating by
petitioning for a White House garden.
To solve the country's obesity crisis, Waters believes, we should plant more gardens, and not just any garden, but schoolyard gardens.
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As a teacher myself, I think it's a great idea! Kids would love this!
1I recall reading about a metro school that does this. The kids compost their leftovers from lunch, plant the garden, tend to it, and harvest the produce which is prepared for future school lunches. Great lessons!
2I think it's a wondeful idea. A garden not only helps promote healthy lifestyle and physical activity by tending to it, cleaning and harvesting, but it gets the kids to know where the good food comes from (and not some fast food joint).
3I agree with her idea 1000%.
4Rachael Ray had a teacher come onto her show who does something like this for her students. It's a really neat idea and if I were a teacher, I'd probably do something like that with my students as well. Keeping a vegetable garden is one adult skill that I think everyone should learn.
5Its an awesome idea, one that my mom had been doing for at least a decade before waters...
6Sounds similar to a book by Stephanie Alexander...she has a kitchen garden foundation operating in Australia and was involved in starting a kitchen garden in Collingwood College in 2001.
7Neat idea!
8a wonderful cause and program that schools around the country should emulate. a great book too!!
9http://www.gatheringhome.com/2009/04/the-edible-schooyard-in-action.html
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