Focus the Nation: Let It Grow: Community, Gardens, Farm-to-School, and Farmers Markets

Huffduffed by adactio on September 28th, 2009

Launched in Italy in 1986 to resist an opening of a McDonald’s restaurant near the Spanish Steps, the Slow Food Movement is quickly gaining momentum both in America and worldwide. Discover what this movement is about and what it could mean for the health of our society with Iris Peppard, community garden coordinator at the Service Learning Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay, and Kathryn Spencer, program coordinator of the Division of Science and Environmental Policy at CSU Monterey Bay. Learn how communities, farmers markets and shared gardens play a role in this movement, and how these initiatives are teaching school-aged children about food and nutrition. Explore what all of this could mean for the fast food industry.

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