Alice Waters on School Food

Tamzin Baker:

In 1996, Waters set up the Edible Schoolyard Project, a small organic garden and classroom kitchen at Martin Luther King Jr middle school, in Berkeley, where students learn the values of healthy eating by growing their own lunch. Similar programmes have been set up in New Orleans and Greensboro, North Carolina, where obesity levels are among the highest in the country.

"I'm trying to get to a place where we educate children at a very early age and give them a meal in school that is free," says Waters. "But it doesn't happen without a curriculum that goes with it. They've tried to give kids healthier lunches and kids just throw them in the garbage. Kids have to be engaged with hands-on experience of growing and preparing the food. And so I have an idea for setting up an edible schoolyard at a high school. In fact that's why I'm going to meet with the mayor of Sacramento."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 2, 2013 1:51 AM
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