Friday, November 13, 2015
Mr Sun is happy
Amid the spiraling hyperlooniness of Federal crimes and rackets, plain old public schools are starting to move in several good directions. Nothing dramatic or political about this Chicago project but it's BIG.
But for years, CPS officials considered school garden produce too dangerous to serve in cafeterias. Then, quietly in 2013, the district decided to reconsider the policy and launched a program called “Eat What You Grow.” Today, more than 80 schools have gone through safety training to allow students and faculty to bring produce into the classroom and even work it into lunchroom food. Drew Thomas, the school garden coordinator for CPS, sees the program as a powerful tool to connect kids to healthful foods. “We recognize the research that has demonstrated the value of a farm-to-school approach to nutrition education,” he said. “And our school gardens are kind of the pillars of that program.”80 schools = a LOT of kids are getting regularly exposed to sanity-inducing activities and intelligence-raising microbes and life-giving SUNLIGHT. Nature wants us to work in the soil. The picture with the article shows all the kids wearing food-handling gloves like Taco Bell employees. Probably required by regs but not a good idea. Those gloves won't protect your hands from thorns but they will protect your hands from the good bacteria. Wear serious leather gloves or no gloves.
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