Daydreaming while waiting impatiently!

[flowerbug]

and also to just make people more aware that seed libraries do exist and are there for people to use for growing their own foods too. that is that other part of the idea that needs to be more widely shared. even if you don't know someone who likes to garden you might know someone who does and they perhaps may just be starting out... so...

 

[tortoise]

I’m going to need that book too!

Edit- hooray thriftbooks, ordered it for $6

Yay! I'm glad you found it used! I found it at the library.

 

[tortoise]

i was listening the past few weeks to the radio and heard two different shows giving details of programs where the schools changed over to sourcing as much food as they could from local farms.

here's one link:

Food & Nutrition Services

Website for Traverse City Area Public Schools

www.tcaps.net

and another that i hearts:

Fighting food insecurity in Detroit

Food insecurity is one of the biggest challenges to the healthy development of young children in Detroit, but a number of groups and programs are working to change that.

www.modeldmedia.com

this is a more central resource:

Michigan Farm to School

Sharing ideas, tools and resources to support a range of efforts to serve local foods in schools and early care and education settings.

www.canr.msu.edu

I wonder if that could be done in my area. DS14 tells me his friends feel sick after eating lunch. Bloated, fatigue, etc. It's so frustrating that this industrialized food has gone on for so long that people think feeling bad all the time and chronic diseases are normal.

 

[flowerbug]

I wonder if that could be done in my area. DS14 tells me his friends feel sick after eating lunch. Bloated, fatigue, etc. It's so frustrating that this industrialized food has gone on for so long that people think feeling bad all the time and chronic diseases are normal.

it starts by people asking questions and making efforts to change things, so you're on the right track and your own son already knows how different things can feel. those are solid starting points.

 

[tortoise]

it starts by people asking questions and making efforts to change things, so you're on the right track and your own son already knows how different things can feel. those are solid starting points.

I encouraged him to survey 100 students every day after lunch. Every kid has a chromebook and google account, so he could set up Google Forms. I suggested he could compare the "post-ingestive feedback" data with the school lunch calendar to see if there is one meal in particular that is worst. Maybe start by getting one thing on the menu removed.

Unfortunately, DS14 has late work, just-barely-passing grades, and his teachers aren't happy with him playing computer games during class. So he doesn't have time or a potential teacher-mentor to help him.

 

[flowerbug]

imagine the extra resource in gardeners that these ideas are not using...

Farm to School still means more large producers and not using the extras in produce that are often available but wasted.

if you had someone out running around trucking in foods if you had gardeners along the way with extra it would be great to be able to stop in and pick that up to be used too.

remind people of seed libraries and gardners. we often have extra in season if someone wants it.

 

[FarmerJamie]

imagine the extra resource in gardeners that these ideas are not using...

Farm to School still means more large producers and not using the extras in produce that are often available but wasted.

if you had someone out running around trucking in foods if you had gardeners along the way with extra it would be great to be able to stop in and pick that up to be used too.

remind people of seed libraries and gardners. we often have extra in season if someone wants it.

Even better when the students themselves do the growing. I have seen stories of some schools having great success.

Straight from School Gardens to Lunchrooms: Delicious or Dangerous? - PublicSchoolReview.com

School gardens have grown wildly in popularity, but should the harvest from these gardens be used in school cafeterias? Take a bite of the debate and learn about what the opponents and proponents say.

www.publicschoolreview.com

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

i was listening the past few weeks to the radio and heard two different shows giving details of programs where the schools changed over to sourcing as much food as they could from local farms.

Our HS does this. Our FFA leader/Ag teacher started a school farm 6 years ago and 3 years ago implemented it into her teaching and now students run the farm and complete the chores (along with volunteers over the holidays, weekends and summer). They have had a huge garden the last couple years and most of the veggies and the beef raised there goes back into the school nutrition department. They start the seeds in the greenhouse on campus, which also has student managers, and it just grows from there. It is an amazing project and the fresh veggies is a plus for all the kids especially those that aren't able to get them at home.

 

[flowerbug]

Even better when the students themselves do the growing. I have seen stories of some schools having great success.

Straight from School Gardens to Lunchrooms: Delicious or Dangerous? - PublicSchoolReview.com

School gardens have grown wildly in popularity, but should the harvest from these gardens be used in school cafeterias? Take a bite of the debate and learn about what the opponents and proponents say.

www.publicschoolreview.com

yes, exactly, but to start somewhere/anywhere it is just one of many things that can be done and if it lights up a student and gets them into gardening and caring about this planet and all the creatures when before they might have been stuck in a box all day playing video games, well at least it has helped get them out there more.

 

[tortoise]

DH made supper and had DS14 clean up the kitchen yesterday before I got home from grocery shopping and DS6's violin lesson. It was nice to eat together. We havent done that for weeks.

I am at the writing stage of having a list of sections to work on. I checked off 1/3 of the list yesterday, but was picking the easy sections. 4-H meeting tonight so I need to start early and occupy DS6 with TV.