Thursday, February 11, 2010

School garden programs are vital to students' education and health - washingtonpost.com

School garden programs are vital to students' education and health - washingtonpost.com:

"Caitlin Flanagan, writing in the current issue of the Atlantic, imagines a scene in which a poor Mexican immigrates to California to do farm work in hope of a better life for his son, only to have him wind up in Alice Waters's Edible Schoolyard garden.

To some, this might seem no more than a small irony of modern life: one person's effort to escape from the land meets with another's mission to reconnect us with it. But to Flanagan, it is a place to launch her scorn for Waters's project and the prodigious movement it has spawned."