Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea
by Alice Waters
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Author: Alice WatersEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-17
ISBN: 0811862801
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Book Review: Great Idea!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is more like a brochure than a book. I gave it 5 stars as if I were rating an appeal for change, not a book. Waters advocates creating working farms in schoolyards, and incorporating education about food, farming nutrition and history into the venture. This worked in a Berkeley Middle School, and it could work elsewhere.
It's a great, timely idea that reaches hard to connect to teenagers in a profound way.
Summary of Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea
One of America's most influential chefs, Alice Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California, restaurant, Chez Panisse. Twenty-five years later, she and a small group of teachers and volunteers turned over long-abandoned soil at an urban middle school in Berkeley and planted the Edible Schoolyard. The schoolyard has since grown into a universal idea of Edible Education that integrates academics with growing, cooking, and sharing wholesome, delicious food. With inspiring images of the garden and kitchenand their young caretakersEdible Schoolyard is at once a visionary model for sustainable farming and childhood nutrition, and a call to action for schools across the country.History Books
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