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By The Edible Schoolyard
Chez Panisse Foundation
Thursday, Feb 11, 2010

This video was created by Mario de La Vega to promote the Edible Schoolyard book, which chronicles the integration of academics with growing, cooking, and sharing wholesome, delicious food over the last 13 years. With inspiring images of the garden and kitchen—and their young caretakers—Edible Schoolyard is at once a visionary model for sustainable farming and childhood nutrition, and a call to action for schools across the country.  Learn More




See the Edible Schoolyard in the documentary film Food Fight!

Food Fight is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the twentieth century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness.  Learn More



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