Oct. 19, 2010
This article is similar to my first idea for Design Problem 2 of going to preschools and planting vegetable and fruit gardens with the children to gain appreciation of nature and in favor creating less production/pollution by home growing veggies, as well as promoting healthier eating. That's pretty much what Celia Kaplinsky, a Brooklyn elementary school principal, did with New York children.
There are already 285 school gardens in New York City, according to a recent state survey, part of a national school gardening trend. Most are small affairs, completely reliant on parent volunteers and teachers’ spare time...The P.S. 216 project, known as an Edible Schoolyard, is part of a second generation of gardens, which involve things like state-of-the art greenhouses, professional staff, large city grants, and ever-more-ambitious agendas. Ms. Waters’s project, for example, aims to find a solution to childhood obesity by integrating the lessons of food growing, food preparation and healthy eating through the curriculum. A recent study found that her projects in Berkeley had made headway toward that goal."
My opinion? This is great. More projects like this should be stirred up all around -- it's a great experience for children and teaches them at the core age that habits form. Like I said, they gain a better appreciation and understanding of nature and how it works, they get to really help and see the development/growth of natural things, all while eating healthier, natural and organic foods (in turn creating less pollution for foods that need to be shipped and cleaned from other countries, states, etc).
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/turning-asphalt-into-edible-education/
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