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Response to Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic

The latest issue of The Atlantic includes a piece by Caitlin Flanagan criticizing school gardens. Kurt Michael Friese has written an excellent response. I want to address two points that relate specifically to my professional expertise, as the Director of Urban Sprouts.

January 12, 2010   Posted in: food systems, gbemodel, history, school garden  8 Comments

Summer Program ’08!

We are having so much fun at the Urban Sprouts and Garden for the Environment Summer Program, now in the middle of our second week. The 21 youth—16 middle school youth and 5 high school youth staff—are working in the garden, cooking lunch from garden-grown produce, and learning all about organic gardening, recycling & composting, [...]

July 9, 2008   Posted in: chickens, food systems, urban garden  One Comment

Food class visits Small Farm

Yesterday the June Jordan Food class took a trip to Hidden Villa ranch, an educational organic farm and ranch. As we drove by the farm fields near the ranch’s entrance, a student yelled out, “Look! It’s just like the small farms we learned about!” As in, small farms versus industrial farms. I was happy. Another [...]

April 25, 2008   Posted in: farm, food systems, local food, organic  Comments Closed

Delicious and Meaningful

I am not easily ruffled by celebrity status. There are strata of celebrity and I am often challenged to distinguish who is who and from what they derive their importance. That said, I actually gawked the other day. I was officially star struck. Not so much by the mere fact of popular status but rather [...]

February 28, 2008   Posted in: celebrities, food systems, local food  One Comment