“Good food should be a right and not a privilege.”
Alice Waters, Founder of Chez Parnisse and The Edible Schoolyard Project
a school kitchen garden
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TastEd
Bee Wilson is a food writer and broadcaster and the author of five books, including First Bite: How We Learn to Eat (2016) in which she wrote about the Sapere method of food education in Finland. Her latest book is The Way We Eat Now in which she writes about TastEd. She has long been interested in school food and served two terms as a school governor at St Matthew’s primary school in Cambridge, where she has been piloting TastEd lessons alongside teachers. Her current favourite way to eat a carrot is in a Burmese salad with mint, peanuts and lime juice.
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Facebook groups
Permaculture for Children: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1651287785128610/
Soil Association Food for Life:
https://www.facebook.com/SAfoodforlife/
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Books
Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Highly Processed World
Bettina Elias Siegel is a former lawyer, a mom of two, and a nationally recognized writer and advocate on issues relating to children and food policy. Learn more about Bettina here.
- The first book to critically examine how America’s food culture exploits children — and misleads parents
- Exposes predatory food-industry techniques for both marketing directly to children and convincing parents that highly-processed products are “healthy”
- Extensive coverage of America’s school-food program, including why, even after Obama-era reforms, school meals are still so often dominated by processed foods, many bearing popular junk-food trademarks
- Offers scientific and historical context to popular concepts like picky eating and the omnipresent but unhealthy restaurant “kid’s menu“
- Weaves in first-person accounts of real parents struggling to raise healthy kids in America
- Authored by a leading voice on children’s food environments and school food — herself a mom of two, a former food-industry marketing attorney, and one of the most successful petitioners in the history of Change.org
Blog: The Lunch Tray
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Organisations
Australia
https://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/content/kitchen-garden-community
https://www.sustainableschoolsnsw.org.au/teach/food-gardens
https://www.cultivatingcommunity.org.au/schoolfoodgardensprogram
Canada
Waterloo region – School gardens
India
https://vikaspedia.in/education/teachers-corner/school-nutrition-kitchen-garden
https://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/434
New Zealand
https://www.aplaceoflearning.co.nz/courses/vegetable-gardening-in-schools/
South Africa
Assessment of food gardens as nutrition tool in primary schools in South Africa
UK
Jamie Oliver’s Kitchen Garden Project: https://www.foodforlife.org.uk/schools/schools-kitchen-garden-project
UK/Europe: https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/how-to-set-up-a-school-garden/
https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/home
Shape Your Future: The Benefits of School and Community Gardens
USA
The Edible Schoolyard Project: https://edibleschoolyard.org/
Poe Center: School & Community Garden Resources
Slow Food USA: The National School Garden Program
Denver: Starting a School-Based Community Garden
Las Vegas: Growing a school community
Pasedena Educational Foundation: School Community Gardens
International organisations
FAO: http://www.fao.org/3/a0218e/A0218E02.htm
Harvard: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/18/07/let-it-grow
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Articles
From garden to plate: how schools benefit from growing their own produce
Farm To School, Digging Into The Growing Trend Of Schools Growing Their Own Food
https://www.qaeducation.co.uk/content/why-gardening-should-be-taught-schools
Planning Sustainable School Gardens: Introduction
https://sustainablefoodcenter.org/latest/gardening/the-benefits-of-school-gardens
The Benefits of Building an Urban Garden at Your School
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