The educational mission is to improve the health of the entire community by establishing and maintaining lifelong healthy eating habits. At Woodside School in Woodside, students as young as 7 or 8 trace the passage of food from their garden to their plates. They learn the price of plants and how to design labels for their garden areas in a mini-marketing exercise that pulls together math and art. And they learn to apply this new awareness to their own health by keeping a log of their snacks and meals. Home and school co-educate when parents and students garden together at the Roosevelt School in San Leandro.
All grades continue learning all year-round.
They take ripe produce home during the summer, and together families, students and teachers celebrate a great harvest in the fall. It's so worrisome to see what kids are eating these days. They're eating junk food in a package served to them by a stranger. Ecosystem education is becoming a way of life for many students and adults. The concept of soil quality and toxin free air environments extends across the nation among educators, who work together with ecologists and adult groups such as the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners.