The Edible Schoolyard: Berkeley Schools Lead a Revolution
By Jennifer Biddle, Elaine Herscher, Paola Laverde, and Eric Turner
CONSUMER HEALTH INTERACTIVE
This acre of urban land at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California is about more than pretty plants. The schoolyard, where students learn to cultivate and cook their own produce, was founded on the notion that children and teens will learn to love healthy food if they have a hand in growing and preparing it. The Edible Schoolyard is emulated as a national model and is considered an important tool in the arsenal against the epidemic of childhood obesity. Click here or on the picture to start. Multimedia Team
Photos: Paola Laverde, Elaine Herscher, Jennifer Biddle, and Getty Images
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Further Resources For information on the Edible Schoolyard and links to related programs: www.edibleschoolyard.org "Rethinking School Lunch" guide at www.ecoliteracy.org/programs/rsl.html The Healthy Kids Challenge at www.healthykidschallenge.com "School Lunches: Invasion of the Body Fatteners" at www.yourhealthconnection.com/topic/schoollunch "Kids, Soda, and Obesity" at www.yourhealthconnection.com/topic/soda
References
Interview with Marsha Guerrero, Edible Schoolyard executive director
Interview with Forrest Liu, student, Martin Luther King Middle School
Woolston,C., Herscher, E. and Tartamella, L. "Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children from the Epidemic of Obesity," Perseus Books, 2005
Reviewed by Michael Potter, MD, an attending physician and associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who is board certified in family practice.
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First published September 18, 2007
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