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National Edible Schoolyard

Alice Waters: Mother of the Slow Food Movement

Gardener Profile: Examining Innovative IndividualsAlice Waters is an innovator in the fields of health, gardening, and sustainability. CBS claims...
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Organic Edible Evening Fundraiser - March 24, 2011

  • Organic fundraiser
  • March 22, 2011
The Edible Schoolyard at the Samuel J. Green Charter School is having its Second Annual Edible Evening Fundraiser, Thursday March 24, 2011 from 6...
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Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard

  • The Edible Schoolyard
  • November 30, 2010
Visionary chef Alice Waters has spent the past 16 years helping develop the Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley's Martin Luther King School. She felt...
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Art is the last frontier of freedom:Artist Mildred Howard’s art of Social Change

  • Mildred Howard
  • October 25, 2010
San Francisco born artists Mildred Howard has become an epic part of the East Bay’s cultural landscape. First of all, Howard has an...
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Berkeley School Lunch documentary seeks to influence legislators and inspire nationally

Can Berkeley’s School Lunch Initiative save our children's health and ignite a national movement rooted in community values? Two local...
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Thanks, Caitlin... (part 4)

Part one, Part two, Part three... Let's just talk about Flanagan's vignette with the Hispanic ag-worker's kid and how offensive it is to have that...
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Thanks, Caitlin (3)

This is part three. Read parts one and two.... Low-achieving kids tend to have one big thing in common, and (newsflash!) it ain't race, class, or...
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Thanks a lot, Caitlin... (part 2)

Just joining us? Part one here.When Alice Waters showed up at King MIddle School with her pitchfork and fat wallet, an acre of derelict pavement in...
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Thanks a lot, Caitlin: a painfully beside-the-point indictment of Berkeley's Edible Schoolyard

Read Caitlin Flanagan's article in The Atlantic Online here.Caitlin Flanagan and I can agree on a couple of things. Fads are annoying in direct...
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