Yay! I'm glad you found it used! I found it at the library.
I wonder if that could be done in my area. DS14 tells me his friends feel sick after eating lunch. Bloated, fatigue, etc. It's so frustrating that this industrialized food has gone on for so long that people think feeling bad all the time and chronic diseases are normal.i was listening the past few weeks to the radio and heard two different shows giving details of programs where the schools changed over to sourcing as much food as they could from local farms.
here's one link:
and another that i hearts:
Fighting food insecurity in Detroit
Food insecurity is one of the biggest challenges to the healthy development of young children in Detroit, but a number of groups and programs are working to change that.www.modeldmedia.com
this is a more central resource:
Michigan Farm to School
Sharing ideas, tools and resources to support a range of efforts to serve local foods in schools and early care and education settings.www.canr.msu.edu
I encouraged him to survey 100 students every day after lunch. Every kid has a chromebook and google account, so he could set up Google Forms. I suggested he could compare the "post-ingestive feedback" data with the school lunch calendar to see if there is one meal in particular that is worst. Maybe start by getting one thing on the menu removed.it starts by people asking questions and making efforts to change things, so you're on the right track and your own son already knows how different things can feel. those are solid starting points.
Even better when the students themselves do the growing. I have seen stories of some schools having great success.
www.publicschoolreview.com
Our HS does this. Our FFA leader/Ag teacher started a school farm 6 years ago and 3 years ago implemented it into her teaching and now students run the farm and complete the chores (along with volunteers over the holidays, weekends and summer). They have had a huge garden the last couple years and most of the veggies and the beef raised there goes back into the school nutrition department. They start the seeds in the greenhouse on campus, which also has student managers, and it just grows from there. It is an amazing project and the fresh veggies is a plus for all the kids especially those that aren't able to get them at home.
Even better when the students themselves do the growing. I have seen stories of some schools having great success.
Straight from School Gardens to Lunchrooms: Delicious or Dangerous? - PublicSchoolReview.com
School gardens have grown wildly in popularity, but should the harvest from these gardens be used in school cafeterias? Take a bite of the debate and learn about what the opponents and proponents say.
