Community Gardens

Sarah Henry is a journalist who usually writes about nutrition and local foods. Her intended audience for this article are minorities interested in farming. Penniman raises a local farm with fresh foods and wants people to have access to fresh produce. This is a great article for my unit three essay because this essay talks about a way to solve one of my problems the lack of healthy food or (availability). This article is also great for my essay because the ideas of local farms also fix the problem with processed food.

Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation is creating an urban garden that would use the joy of gardening to provide intergenerational and cross-cultural connections within a food desert with access to fresh fruits and vegetables and weekly physical activities using the joy of gardening. The program will promote positive behavioral changes that include better nutrition and increase physical activity among participants while teach entrepreneurship skills to the youth through the farmers’ market. In addition, the garden and market would be used to teach youth and low-income families gardening and entrepreneurial skills while also providing the low-income community to be served with regular access to fresh fruit and vegetables. TWEF will also provide

At Sprouting Hope community garden is located in Hungry Mother State Park Marion, Virginia. During the Emory and Henry’s “Service Plunge” Dr. Davis’ transitions I class spent their time volunteering to weed the garden. The garden is ran by Jason Von Kundra, an enthusiastic leader for this non-profit organization. The garden allows low income families from the surrounding areas to have healthier eating options. The opportunity to learn the importance of nature and the process of growing ones food. Sprouting Hope is an organization that exemplifies the traditions we as a country has lost. The importance of healthy food has diminished over time due to factors such as work, convenience and the overall fast pace of the twenty first century.

Do you know what is in the food that you are fueling your body with? Eating locally grown food or growing your own food allows you to know exactly what is in your food and where it is coming from. Award winning author Barbara Kingsolver ditched her urban life full of pesticides and GMOs, and uprooted her family to a farm where they were going to eat all home or locally grown food for a year. The Kingsolver family documented this one-year food journey in their non-fiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Barbara Kingsolver wants to educate, persuade, and inspire her readers to live healthier lives by first forcing them to question the food they are consuming. She uses allusion, figurative language, and rhetorical questioning

All students K-12 will be required to take at least one nutrition course per year in order to graduate. The class will entail lecture-style learning and hands-on activities by means of community gardens. WASD, in conjunction with the Future Farmers of America and the Wellsboro Master Gardening Club will start community gardens at each of the four schools. Students will gain first-hand experience growing fruits and vegetables while learning about their nutrient content. Throughout the duration of the policy, registered dietitians and nutritionists from Susquehanna Health, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital, and other local agencies will be invited to give special presentations.

Gardens offer science and mathematics lessons in enjoyable, hands-on situations that permit children to “think with their hands”. Gardens help teach communities and endorse sustainable, local foods while also providing critical science and mathematics lessons to elementary students. Gardens also teach children life lessons such as patience and accountability as they nurture plants. Research done by the University of Alabama demonstrates that children’s participation in gardens leads to healthier food choices, more compliance to try or eat vegetables, improved plant knowledge, greater interest in learning, and increased reading and math standardized test scores. Students who participated in gardening had a six percent lower body mass index, an average of eleven percent higher standardized test scores, and twenty-seven percent more vegetable consumption (Grider). For many students, school can be a uninteresting but required exercise where paying attention and retaining information becomes a tedious endeavor. When an active teacher decides to teach science through gardening and hands-on experience, they will discover that students are more engaged with a higher voluntary participation rate. NWFSC should start a garden because of the possible learning opportunities that can be available to local elementary

Looking around Columbia State Community College with the stunning zinnia gardens throughout the grounds, with ample land space and seeing recycling bins placed around the campus, and non smoking signs on the doors, CSCC is on the right path toward being a green campus; we can do more with a starting a community college garden. Imagine a community garden at CSCC where the students, faculty and the community show off with pride, not only because of its beauty, but because it enables a new set of learning experiences for students and our neighbors. CSCC should be willing to fight for a healthier campus. With CSCC deciding to make a conscious effort to encourage, a healthier way of eating by having a community college garden that will encourage students to make the right food choice.

With the success of many farms to school programs across the nations, I believe this to be a sure way to get this nation back on the right track to healthy eating. It is important to begin teaching kids about the healthy option so they will know how and why

Propaganda is a strenuous form of organised communication involving production, dissemination, and reproduction of ideas, images and messages that are aimed at persuading and influencing the opinions and actions of large groups of individuals. During World War II, the scale and sophistication of propaganda were unprecedented, influenced by the rise of mass media technologies. This essay examines the various mechanisms of propaganda employed during WWII, illustrating how it influenced the war effort and sustained national morale through the lens of both Allied and Axis powers. Propaganda during World War II was not merely a tool of statecraft but a necessity for mobilising national effort and sustaining morale in face of severe adversities.

The goals,is to improve school food, teach nutrition, support sustainable food systems, and create an education program focused on understanding the relationships between food, culture, health, and the environment.By the time today’s kindergartner finishes high school, she may have eaten well over 4,000 school meals—4,000 opportunities to strengthen her body and mind, introduce food pleasures that will make her a lifelong healthy eater, and deepen her engagement with the natural world. The more than 5.5 billion lunches and nearly 2 billion breakfasts served yearly in school programs, along with complementary education programs, can have a profound effect on issues of public health, academic performance, economics, justice, national security,

The solution? Make fresh produce and healthy meals just as cheap and accessible as fast food, by bringing a weekly farmers market to the families in low-income areas. By providing a stable, and legitimate nutrition source, younger children on the road to ill-health will have an opportunity to alter their path, and craft create a healthier future.

A wide variety of theories and methods attempt to explain early childhood learning and development. Erickson and Maslow both have theories that focus on social and personality development, as well as a person’s motivation to learn throughout their lives. Their theories are helpful in understanding Jeannette Walls’ development of self. Erickson and Maslow also help clarify why her mother, father, and living in New York City were such influential factors in the development of Jeanette’s sense of self.

In Spanish class today, Mr. Argotta explained a new project, whoever he believes creates the best vacation plan to Mexico, will receive a ticket to Mexico and go on their vacation that they created. I’ve always wanted to travel the world, and now I can finally get my chance. I’m so excited! After school today, I went down to the bookstore to work my shift. The store was slow, so I decided to get a start on my Mexico project. I found some books about Mexico and sat down in the corner on the beanbag chair and started researching. As soon as I started working, I heard a noise from the backroom. I ignored and went back to work, but then I kept hearing it again. I raced to get the phone at the counter and dialed 911 with my shaky hands. All of a

Gardens, the final frontier. When I was little my mom and I would rototill our yard and dig out a couple trenches. After we dug out the trenches my mom and I would spend a couple of hours walking around the garden section of Lowes, we would find several veggie plants that we would then take home for the home-made garden. Her and I would sit outside for hours as she taught me how to plant the veggies and take care of the roots and put them in the dirt the right way. She would have me take care the plants in the garden that I wanted to plant and she would teach me the proper way to do it. She taught me the responsibility of planting a garden and then taking care of it, she taught me that you can not give up on something just because it is too hard or too much work. See, Gardens can be used for much more than just farming and gaining crops, these gardens can be used to teach children, help

With such a widening gap between rural and suburban environments due to suburban expansion, it little wonder that the majority of children believe that their food comes from the grocery store. Some individuals created programs in school in order to shrink the gap in the child's lack of knowledge and try and promote agriculture in suburban schools. The National FFA Organization and 4H are some examples of programs that try to get children more interested in the rapidly diminishing agricultural