On a typical Friday morning, rainy and windy as this one, I would stay asleep. But today I am headed to an opening celebration of an Edible School Yard in Brooklyn. No, the kiddies will not be eating cement. The school yard has been turned into a garden with fruit trees and veggies and some chickens who are not edible, but their eggs will be.
I am not going because I want to, but I have to because I work there and the principal would be highly insulted if I didn’t show up. Besides, she says Michelle Obama will be coming to the school sometime this year and I want to bring little Nina to see that so I’m going to need to be on the principal’s good side. Thus I am not allowing rain, wind and cold to deter me.
‘Tis a nice garden from which I managed to make a very early exit while still getting credit for showing up. Although I have no idea why Jake Gyllenhaal
(Brokeback Mountain) was there, he was. Had I stayed I might have found out what his roll in Edible Schoolyards is but escape was more appealing.
Edible Schoolyard started out of Berkeley (of course) and Chez Panisse, originally at the Martin Luther King Jr. Junior High School. I knew some of the folks who started it.
It’s an important issue and I am glad they have it there and you and Jake showed up. Nutrition and food and childhood obesity. are major issues in this country intertwined in most of the issues many of us care about. Maybe a little hippie dippy but they are trying to do something that matters.
Vern, the principal did say that the program started in Berkley and the she had gone there to see the it. Alice Waters was there and the principal introduced her.
Wow. You had Saint Alice there. Not one of her biggest fans but I have total abundance of respect for her. She is a huge figure in the food scheme of things at every level. You saw a revolutionary there. :fist:
On a typical Friday morning, rainy and windy as this one, I would stay asleep. But today I am headed to an opening celebration of an Edible School Yard in Brooklyn. No, the kiddies will not be eating cement. The school yard has been turned into a garden with fruit trees and veggies and some chickens who are not edible, but their eggs will be.
I am not going because I want to, but I have to because I work there and the principal would be highly insulted if I didn’t show up. Besides, she says Michelle Obama will be coming to the school sometime this year and I want to bring little Nina to see that so I’m going to need to be on the principal’s good side. Thus I am not allowing rain, wind and cold to deter me.
Travis, it has always amazed me that people such as your professor get away with this crap for as long as they get away with it. How do they do that?
‘Tis a nice garden from which I managed to make a very early exit while still getting credit for showing up. Although I have no idea why Jake Gyllenhaal
(Brokeback Mountain) was there, he was. Had I stayed I might have found out what his roll in Edible Schoolyards is but escape was more appealing.
Edible Schoolyard started out of Berkeley (of course) and Chez Panisse, originally at the Martin Luther King Jr. Junior High School. I knew some of the folks who started it.
It’s an important issue and I am glad they have it there and you and Jake showed up. Nutrition and food and childhood obesity. are major issues in this country intertwined in most of the issues many of us care about. Maybe a little hippie dippy but they are trying to do something that matters.
Funny, when I hear Jake Gyllenhaal, I don’t think of Brokeback Mountain. I think of Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Vern, the principal did say that the program started in Berkley and the she had gone there to see the it. Alice Waters was there and the principal introduced her.
Wow. You had Saint Alice there. Not one of her biggest fans but I have total abundance of respect for her. She is a huge figure in the food scheme of things at every level. You saw a revolutionary there. :fist: