By Ben Eichorn of GrowYourLunch.com (Reprinted with permission) School lunch continues to be a hot topic these days. At the end of September, The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was up for re-authorization and voting was postponed until December 2015. For now, the 5-year-old standards for increasing fruit, vegetable and whole grain consumption and reducing […]
What captures the interest of students? FOOD! Yes, food can be used to engage students in inquiry-based science — really! The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in collaboration with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have created Science and Our Food Supply, an innovative, interactive supplementary curriculum for use in middle level and high school […]
Show Me The Green is a new children’s book by DS Venetta that teaches gardening in a “novel” way. It is intended for a middle-grade audience but can be enjoyed by a much wider age group. The story revolves around a sister-brother team, Lexi and Jason Williams, who are determined to win the First Annual Garden Contest […]
I recently came across a very valuable teaching resource for both educators and students from a very unlikely source – Afghan Ag. e-Afghan Ag is supported by the USDA and managed by University of California, Davis with additional information from other land grant universities such as Cornell and Purdue. The url is http://afghanag.ucdavis.edu/ The site contains […]
Two Junior Master Gardener Pop Up Opportunities: For Ages 7-14 July 14th and July 16th 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Imagine picking a cauliflower from your garden and making a pizza from it. A cauliflower crust pizza has no flour and hence no gluten. Who doesn’t like pizza? Everyone likes pizza. Kids will be lining up to sample it. Intrigued? I surely was, couldn’t wait to try it. You can even fold it like a pizza […]
Bursting with flavor and just the right infusion of insight, Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems presents a collection of poems from thirty-four writers on the most universal topic of all: food. Featuring a wide assortment of styles, from haiku to acrostics to free verse, these poems touch on topics that […]