The Edible Schoolyard Project had the chance to speak with two food advocates, Ron Finley and Stephen Ritz, who are changing their communities and challenging our current food system by growing healthy minds and healthy bodies.
Edible Education 103: The Farm Bill, by Chellie Pingree, Dan Imhoff, and Ken Cook
Published September 23, 2012
| Updated January 29, 2013
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Place of Learning: Academic Classroom
Resource Type: Other
Grade Level: College/University, Adults/Professionals
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Edible Education 103: Telling Stories About Food and Agriculture is a Fall 2012 course at UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism and College of Letters and Science. The course is moderated by Michael Pollan, a Knight Journalism Professor at UC Berkeley.
Course
As the costs of our industrialized food system—to the environment, public health, farmers and food workers, and to our social life—become impossible to ignore, a national debate over the future of food and farming has begun. Telling stories about where food comes from, how it is produced—and how it might be produced differently—plays a critical role in bringing attention to the issue and shifting politics. Each week, a prominent figure in the debate explores: What can be done to make the food system healthier, more equitable, more sustainable? What is the role of storytelling in the process?
Lecture Video
Lecturers
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, known for introducing the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act, Dan Imhoff, researcher, author, and independent publisher of issues related to farming, the environment, and design, and Ken Cook, president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, lead a discussion on the Farm Bill.
Sponsorships
Sponsored by The Edible Schoolyard Project (edibleschoolyard.org), with support from The Epstein Roth Foundation. Instructor: Michael Pollan.
Area: Garden Classroom
Type: Community Outreach
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In this Google Hangout co-hosted by the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution Community, we spoke with three school garden programs from West Virginia, California, and Oregon about their challenges and successes in starting and sustaining school garden programs. We were also joined by...
Area: Garden Classroom, Kitchen Classroom, School Cafeteria
Type: Program Management
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In our first Google Hangout on the topic of training garden-based educators, the Edible Schoolyard Project spoke with five programs to hear about different training models and their strategies for creating and sustaining school garden programs.
Area: Garden Classroom
Type: Program Management
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