Michelle Obama has her organic garden at the White House. She has started a program called Let's Move (http://letsmove.gov/) where they are out to alter the youth's relationship to food, gardening, eating right, the schools food system, exercising and a whole lot more. It seems she has taken on the mission as hers as First Lady. Thank you Michelle, you are a real woman/mom/person for seeing this as important.
There are the 11 year old girls in NYC who on vacation in Ohio tasted a cherry tomato and were blown away by how good it tasted. They started finding out where their food was coming from and what was in their food. Check out their website... http://www.whatsonyourplateproject.org/ They have also made a movie about their adventure of discovering where their food comes from.
When checking out the blog on http://www.whatsonyourplateproject.org/, I discovered this interesting blog:
http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/ . This is a neat real life adventure. A teacher has decided to eat the schools lunch that is served to the kids, everyday and blog about it. Awesome. Hopefully that will generate some awareness about what our kids are eating and that it is not locally grown.
What I would love to see is kids learning HANDS ON what it is like to grow food and what food grown in their garden tastes like (like the 11 year old girls). One thing Jamie was shocked by in his TV segment was the lack of knowledge the kids had about what vegetables are. They didn't know the difference between tomatos and potatos.
I am joining Jamie's forces, First Lady Michelle Obama's...and other's.
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