The Edible Garden: Jake Gyllenhaal and Alice Waters Teach Kids to Grow and Cook to Live Well
One of the icons of the healthy food movement in America, Alice Waters, is working with actor Jake Gyllenhaal to bring Edible Gardening and healthy food to children in schools.
The Today Show: The Edible Garden
Jake and Alice are getting their hands in the soil with the students in a dozen schools and taking them into the kitchen to cook what they grow. The kids love to eat what they have nurtured and harvested from the community gardens at their public schools. This is a trend whose time has come…
In many countries, it’s been a constant to teach children to go into the garden and the field and grow the food that their families and communities eat and share together. Jake made the point of describing how he came to know his family and they came to know him at the dinner table. Sharing food is more than mere consumption, it nourishes the bonds that strengthen us and join us together as a human family.
It is about time that our schools in America follow suit and get our children outside, hands in the good earth, and planting the foods that they will learn to feed their bodies and their souls. It should be the basis for every school’s curriculum!
When we see young kids eating kale, making crepes, and laughing while they plant more basil; you know that our educational system for living healthy has a bright future. The cost of health care will be lower, the children will thrive, and hunger will be replaced by learning how to exchange seeds and share our productive harvests.
We recently watched Jake Gyllenhaal play a strong role in SourceCode where he learned the nature of reality and parallel timelines that Quantum Physics has yet to teach the average human being how to design the life that they want to live. SourceCode was one of those monumental flicks that keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering what can possibly come next while exploring deep Thoughts about the nature of Reality and the exploration of Human Consciousness.
Time Reassignment was compared to Time Travel and the contrast in understanding can open up a door for kids in the garden and adults in the kitchen. Imagine for a moment what your world would look like when every member of your family was engaged in growing your own food, preparing your own food, and sharing your food with your neighbors. The joy, happiness, peace of mind, and health of the relationship to the soil, the people, and the food binds you in ways that our busy lifestyles have all but forgotten.
It’s time for a healthy Lifestyle and a return to the natural order of things…
You can be instrumental in bringing this to your community and your home garden. Go to your local schools and youth groups to encourage gardening and cooking skills with your children and students. You can build a Community Garden and share plots with local people who share the common ground to grow what they want to eat and exchange the excess with their neighbors. No one in this nation needs to go hungry when we all work together to feed one another and the next generation.
