Although this may be true, a much more important lesson is being taught to students through school gardening programs. Alice Waters, chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse, is an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy, created The Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. She is considered one of the most educational innovators in nation and has won many awards including, Excellence in Education Award from Senator Barbara Boxer and an Educational Heroes Award from the U.S. Department of Education. The Edible Schoolyard is a model public education program that instills the knowledge and values we need to build a humane and sustainable future. Children are learning the importance of ethical values, such as, responsibility and work ethic from school gardening programs. These lessons will take them further in life than “higher math”. These children will learn how to grow food and the value of fresh food. Counterintuitive, “how food grows- a lesson, that our farm worker’s son might have learned at his father’s knee” (Flanagan
Although this may be true, a much more important lesson is being taught to students through school gardening programs. Alice Waters, chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse, is an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy, created The Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. She is considered one of the most educational innovators in nation and has won many awards including, Excellence in Education Award from Senator Barbara Boxer and an Educational Heroes Award from the U.S. Department of Education. The Edible Schoolyard is a model public education program that instills the knowledge and values we need to build a humane and sustainable future. Children are learning the importance of ethical values, such as, responsibility and work ethic from school gardening programs. These lessons will take them further in life than “higher math”. These children will learn how to grow food and the value of fresh food. Counterintuitive, “how food grows- a lesson, that our farm worker’s son might have learned at his father’s knee” (Flanagan