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Edible Schoolyard

October 21, 2023

The Edible Schoolyard (ESY) is a 1-acre (4,000 m2) garden and kitchen program at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, a public middle school in Berkeley, California. It was established in 1995, by chef and author Alice Waters. It is supported by the Edible Schoolyard Project,[1] a non-profit organization founded by Waters that same year in celebration of the 25th anniversary of her restaurant, Chez Panisse.

At the Edible Schoolyard, students participate in planting, harvesting, and preparing fresh food as part of their school activities. The project uses these activities to reinforce school lessons, such as mathematics, science, culture, and history, as well as to make connections between food, health, and the environment.

History Edit

The Edible Schoolyard was founded in 1995 in a vacant lot at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. Waters combined her perspectives as a trained Montessori teacher, fervent political activist, gifted chef, and champion of sustainable agriculture. [2] [3]Waters met with Neil Smith, then principal of King Middle School, to discuss the possibility of transforming the space into a garden project that would involve students, teachers, and the community.

Planning for the Edible Schoolyard Garden and after-school cooking classes began in 1995, and were offered in the 1995-1996 school year. The cooking programs at King used organic produce from a local farm until 1997, when they started using the crops harvested from the Edible Schoolyard Garden.

In 2004, the Edible Schoolyard Project co-developed the School Lunch Initiative in partnership with Berkeley Unified School District, the Center for Ecoliteracy, and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Center. This was an effort to develop a model for school lunch programs to provide healthy, freshly prepared meals within budget, and connect to kitchen garden learning programs on campus.[4] The initiative emphasized the connection between food education, and improved school food and student knowledge relating to food choices. Chef Ann Cooper was hired to direct the food service program for the Berkeley Unified School District and lead the transition to scratch-based cooking. As a result, processed foods were largely eliminated from the school lunch menu, and local produce became central to all school meals.[5]

As of 2019, the Edible Schoolyard has a network of more than 5,800 kitchen/garden programs across the country, provides an annual summer academy for food educators and nutrition services personnel, and continues to create a curriculum around kitchen/garden learning for grades 6 and up.[6] As of May 2023, the network has grown to over 6,200 locations world-wide.[7]

Mission and Goals of the Edible Schoolyard Edit

The mission of the Edible Schoolyard is "to create and sustain an organic garden and landscape that is wholly integrated into the school's curriculum, culture, and food program. Its vision is grounded in the following key principle: children deserve to be nurtured in body and mind, treated with dignity, and shown that they are valued".[8] ESY aims to involve students in the experience of growing, harvesting, preparing, and sharing food as a means of fostering knowledge of food and food systems, improving students' food choices, and connecting students to the land, the environment, and their community. It also aims to engage students and enhance their educational experience through activities in the garden and the kitchen classrooms. By these goals, all students at King Middle School participate in the kitchen and garden programs. Garden lessons are linked to the science and math curricula and standards, while kitchen lessons are linked to humanities curricula and standards.

Garden Edit

An example of a garden class taught in the Edible Schoolyard is the amaranth lesson, which focuses on amaranth grain. In this lesson, students harvest and winnow the amaranth grain in addition to discussing its use as a staple crop in ancient civilizations. After harvesting and winnowing the grain, students write an acrostic poem using the letters of the word "amaranth". They then use the amaranth plant to make a pink dye, which highlights an additional use for the plant.

Kitchen Edit

An example of a kitchen lesson is the Panzanella lesson, where students learn about the Tuscan origins of the dish, and how it was created to use up old bread, and then participate in preparing and eating it. In a typical kitchen class, students meet with the classroom teachers to discuss the steps involved in preparing a recipe, and then break into working groups where they follow a recipe under the supervision of their teachers. Kitchen classes include sharing the finished dish around communal tables and culminating with clean-up.

School Lunch connection Edit

The Edible Schoolyard aims to improve student's relationship with food in conjunction with their experiences in the garden and kitchen classrooms. According to Alice Waters, when students are active in the harvesting and preparing of new foods, they are inclined to try them.[9]

A 2010 evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative by the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health found that students who attended elementary and middle schools with highly developed School Lunch Initiative components ate more fruits and vegetables and scored higher on food and nutrition knowledge assessments than their peers who attended schools with lesser developed School Lunch Initiative components.[10][11]

Schools with highly developed components integrated cooking and gardening classes into the school curriculum in addition to overhauling the school food service with primarily natural, local, and from scratch foods. Schools with lesser-developed components had overhauled school food service but did not incorporate regular cooking and gardening classes into the school curriculum.[12]

Criticism Edit

Caitlin Flanagan (2010) criticized the concept of edible schoolyards as detrimental to the educational needs of children. Flanagan's criticism generated a wider discussion of the Edible Schoolyard and other school garden programs. Others argue that "career skills grow along with plants"[13] and that the presence of a school garden serves to add to and enrich a school's curriculum.[14]

W. Steven Barnett, a professor of education, notes that while "little research exists on the efficacy of a garden-based curriculum", Flanagan presents a false choice, noting that the gardens are "integrated into the child's learning experience".[15] The head of Samuel J. Green School in New Orleans, which also has an Edible Schoolyard, noted an improvement in eating a "healthful diet and doing well in school" among students at the school since the Edible Schoolyard was established.[16]

References Edit

  1. ^ Edible Schoolyard Project
  2. ^ Zissu, Alexandra (2023-05-26). "Alice Waters wants to make education edible in Rhinebeck". Times Union. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  3. ^ "Driving Change in the Food Movement, One Garden at a Time". Food Tank. 2023-02-02. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. ^ "Watch: This restaurant owner is changing the way kids eat". Time. 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  5. ^ Belkin, Lisa (2006-08-20). "The School-Lunch Test". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  6. ^ "Network". The Edible Schoolyard Project. 2017-11-02. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  7. ^ Zissu, Alexandra (2023-05-26). "Alice Waters wants to make education edible in Rhinebeck". Times Union. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  8. ^ . Archived from the original on 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  9. ^ Telepan, Bill (August 31, 2010). . Martha Stewart Radio Blog. Archived from the original on 2010-09-14.
  10. ^ "An Evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative". The Edible Schoolyard Project. 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  11. ^ Wang, May, et al. An Evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative. Final Report. California: Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health, University of California at Berkeley, 2010. Document.
  12. ^ Rauzon, Suzanne; Wang, May; Studer, Natalie; Crawford, Pat (September 2010). "An Evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative" (PDF).
  13. ^ "A garden of hope grows in post-Katrina schoolyard". USA Today. May 4, 2004.
  14. ^ Green, Emily (January 29, 2010). "The Dry Garden: If critics would stop picking on the school garden, they might learn a thing or two". Los Angeles Times.
  15. ^ Severson, Kim (January 19, 2010). "At a Brooklyn School, Weeding, Writing, and Arithmetic". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2010.
  16. ^ Kummer, Corby (January 15, 2010). "School Gardeners Strike Back". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 31, 2010.

Further reading Edit

  • Waters, Alice (1999). The Edible Schoolyard. Learning in the real world. ISBN 978-0-9675652-1-7..
  • Bahar, Zillah (August 18, 1999). "Many lessons are taught at the Edible Schoolyard". San Francisco Chronicle..
  • "The Edible Schoolyard". The Christian Science Monitor. January 5, 2000..
  • Weintraub, Judith (June 29, 2005). "The Edible Schoolyard". The Washington Post..
  • "Edible Schoolyard sows wider mission". Chicago Tribune. July 13, 2005..
  • Carpenter, Mackenzie (September 20, 2007). "Edible Schoolyard seed planted: A fabled program that allows public school students to grow their own lunches could be coming to Pittsburgh". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette..
  • Schlosser, Eric; Wilson, Charles (2007). Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 249–253. ISBN 978-0-618-59394-1..
  • Newman, Peter; Jennings, Isabella (2008). Cities as sustainable ecosystems: principles and practices. Island Press. pp. 228–229..
  • Kirby, Ellen; Peters, Ellen (2008). Community Gardening. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. pp. 26–27. ISBN 978-1-889538-38-9..

External links Edit

  • The Edible Schoolyard web site
  • Edible Schoolyard NYC website

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This article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view July 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Edible Schoolyard ESY is a 1 acre 4 000 m2 garden and kitchen program at the Martin Luther King Jr Middle School a public middle school in Berkeley California It was established in 1995 by chef and author Alice Waters It is supported by the Edible Schoolyard Project 1 a non profit organization founded by Waters that same year in celebration of the 25th anniversary of her restaurant Chez Panisse At the Edible Schoolyard students participate in planting harvesting and preparing fresh food as part of their school activities The project uses these activities to reinforce school lessons such as mathematics science culture and history as well as to make connections between food health and the environment Contents 1 History 2 Mission and Goals of the Edible Schoolyard 2 1 Garden 2 2 Kitchen 3 School Lunch connection 4 Criticism 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksHistory EditThe Edible Schoolyard was founded in 1995 in a vacant lot at the Martin Luther King Jr Middle School Waters combined her perspectives as a trained Montessori teacher fervent political activist gifted chef and champion of sustainable agriculture 2 3 Waters met with Neil Smith then principal of King Middle School to discuss the possibility of transforming the space into a garden project that would involve students teachers and the community Planning for the Edible Schoolyard Garden and after school cooking classes began in 1995 and were offered in the 1995 1996 school year The cooking programs at King used organic produce from a local farm until 1997 when they started using the crops harvested from the Edible Schoolyard Garden In 2004 the Edible Schoolyard Project co developed the School Lunch Initiative in partnership with Berkeley Unified School District the Center for Ecoliteracy and Children s Hospital Oakland Research Center This was an effort to develop a model for school lunch programs to provide healthy freshly prepared meals within budget and connect to kitchen garden learning programs on campus 4 The initiative emphasized the connection between food education and improved school food and student knowledge relating to food choices Chef Ann Cooper was hired to direct the food service program for the Berkeley Unified School District and lead the transition to scratch based cooking As a result processed foods were largely eliminated from the school lunch menu and local produce became central to all school meals 5 As of 2019 the Edible Schoolyard has a network of more than 5 800 kitchen garden programs across the country provides an annual summer academy for food educators and nutrition services personnel and continues to create a curriculum around kitchen garden learning for grades 6 and up 6 As of May 2023 the network has grown to over 6 200 locations world wide 7 Mission and Goals of the Edible Schoolyard EditThe mission of the Edible Schoolyard is to create and sustain an organic garden and landscape that is wholly integrated into the school s curriculum culture and food program Its vision is grounded in the following key principle children deserve to be nurtured in body and mind treated with dignity and shown that they are valued 8 ESY aims to involve students in the experience of growing harvesting preparing and sharing food as a means of fostering knowledge of food and food systems improving students food choices and connecting students to the land the environment and their community It also aims to engage students and enhance their educational experience through activities in the garden and the kitchen classrooms By these goals all students at King Middle School participate in the kitchen and garden programs Garden lessons are linked to the science and math curricula and standards while kitchen lessons are linked to humanities curricula and standards Garden Edit An example of a garden class taught in the Edible Schoolyard is the amaranth lesson which focuses on amaranth grain In this lesson students harvest and winnow the amaranth grain in addition to discussing its use as a staple crop in ancient civilizations After harvesting and winnowing the grain students write an acrostic poem using the letters of the word amaranth They then use the amaranth plant to make a pink dye which highlights an additional use for the plant Kitchen Edit An example of a kitchen lesson is the Panzanella lesson where students learn about the Tuscan origins of the dish and how it was created to use up old bread and then participate in preparing and eating it In a typical kitchen class students meet with the classroom teachers to discuss the steps involved in preparing a recipe and then break into working groups where they follow a recipe under the supervision of their teachers Kitchen classes include sharing the finished dish around communal tables and culminating with clean up School Lunch connection EditThe Edible Schoolyard aims to improve student s relationship with food in conjunction with their experiences in the garden and kitchen classrooms According to Alice Waters when students are active in the harvesting and preparing of new foods they are inclined to try them 9 A 2010 evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative by the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health found that students who attended elementary and middle schools with highly developed School Lunch Initiative components ate more fruits and vegetables and scored higher on food and nutrition knowledge assessments than their peers who attended schools with lesser developed School Lunch Initiative components 10 11 Schools with highly developed components integrated cooking and gardening classes into the school curriculum in addition to overhauling the school food service with primarily natural local and from scratch foods Schools with lesser developed components had overhauled school food service but did not incorporate regular cooking and gardening classes into the school curriculum 12 Criticism EditCaitlin Flanagan 2010 criticized the concept of edible schoolyards as detrimental to the educational needs of children Flanagan s criticism generated a wider discussion of the Edible Schoolyard and other school garden programs Others argue that career skills grow along with plants 13 and that the presence of a school garden serves to add to and enrich a school s curriculum 14 W Steven Barnett a professor of education notes that while little research exists on the efficacy of a garden based curriculum Flanagan presents a false choice noting that the gardens are integrated into the child s learning experience 15 The head of Samuel J Green School in New Orleans which also has an Edible Schoolyard noted an improvement in eating a healthful diet and doing well in school among students at the school since the Edible Schoolyard was established 16 References Edit Edible Schoolyard Project Zissu Alexandra 2023 05 26 Alice Waters wants to make education edible in Rhinebeck Times Union Retrieved 2023 10 13 Driving Change in the Food Movement One Garden at a Time Food Tank 2023 02 02 Retrieved 2023 10 13 Watch This restaurant owner is changing the way kids eat Time 2014 04 24 Retrieved 2023 09 08 Belkin Lisa 2006 08 20 The School Lunch Test The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2023 09 08 Network The Edible Schoolyard Project 2017 11 02 Retrieved 2023 10 19 Zissu Alexandra 2023 05 26 Alice Waters wants to make education edible in Rhinebeck Times Union Retrieved 2023 10 19 Mission Goals Archived from the original on 2010 10 05 Retrieved 2010 09 29 Telepan Bill August 31 2010 Alice Waters on Teaching Kids to Eat Well and the One Thing She d Most Like to Change About the American Food System Martha Stewart Radio Blog Archived from the original on 2010 09 14 An Evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative The Edible Schoolyard Project 2018 02 08 Retrieved 2023 10 19 Wang May et al An Evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative Final Report California Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health University of California at Berkeley 2010 Document Rauzon Suzanne Wang May Studer Natalie Crawford Pat September 2010 An Evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative PDF A garden of hope grows in post Katrina schoolyard USA Today May 4 2004 Green Emily January 29 2010 The Dry Garden If critics would stop picking on the school garden they might learn a thing or two Los Angeles Times Severson Kim January 19 2010 At a Brooklyn School Weeding Writing and Arithmetic The New York Times Retrieved January 31 2010 Kummer Corby January 15 2010 School Gardeners Strike Back The Atlantic Retrieved January 31 2010 Further reading EditWaters Alice 1999 The Edible Schoolyard Learning in the real world ISBN 978 0 9675652 1 7 Bahar Zillah August 18 1999 Many lessons are taught at the Edible Schoolyard San Francisco Chronicle The Edible Schoolyard The Christian Science Monitor January 5 2000 Weintraub Judith June 29 2005 The Edible Schoolyard The Washington Post Edible Schoolyard sows wider mission Chicago Tribune July 13 2005 Carpenter Mackenzie September 20 2007 Edible Schoolyard seed planted A fabled program that allows public school students to grow their own lunches could be coming to Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Post Gazette Schlosser Eric Wilson Charles 2007 Chew On This Everything You Don t Want to Know About Fast Food Houghton Mifflin Harcourt pp 249 253 ISBN 978 0 618 59394 1 Newman Peter Jennings Isabella 2008 Cities as sustainable ecosystems principles and practices Island Press pp 228 229 Kirby Ellen Peters Ellen 2008 Community Gardening Brooklyn Botanic Garden pp 26 27 ISBN 978 1 889538 38 9 External links EditThe Edible Schoolyard web site Edible Schoolyard NYC website37 52 57 N 122 16 34 W 37 88250 N 122 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