Sep 24 2009

Want to do a school garden? Here’s how!

Bon Apetit Management Company (“food services for a sustainable future”) offers an online guide to developing school gardens.  Called Student Gardens and Food Service, it is a step-by-step guide to planning a garden, growing food in it, using the food in the school’s food service program, and improving the soil through composting.  Should work for other prospective gardeners too!

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  • Sean Roulan
  • September 24, 2009
  • 11:12 am

Greetings,

This is a wonderful report which fills in the gaps of understanding in the process of bringing students as close as possible to their food. Thank you for helping us all jump the hurdles in reforming school food. My landscape design firm, Food System Design, focuses on the design and development of food producing systems from the ground up. We have experience working with schools of all levels and sizes to create pedagogical landscapes based on ecological principles which increase the health of the community member and the earth as well. We would love to help you all build healthy school food systems on a footprint of organic soil. Thanks again!

Sean Roulan MALD
foodsystemdesign@gmail.com

Your Student Gardens and Food Service Guide is wonderfully written! Our company Teich Garden Systems designs and installs school gardens around the country and you have described the desired relationship between the garden and the food service perfectly. In the schools that have our systems there has been a noticeable change in the attitude of the students about the food they are putting in their mouths and knowing where it comes from. These concerns have led to changes in the food service that result in the students and their families eating healthier food.

Should you ever be in need of our services in bringing a school garden to life please contact us. Keep up the good work!

  • Zach Gooding
  • September 24, 2009
  • 9:18 pm

This comment doesn’t really belong here, but I didn’t know where else to post it. In your FAQ section, in the answer to “I want to study about food. Can I get a degree in Food Studies?”, you only mention a small handful of programs. Food Science has been an established scientific discipline for nearly a century, and undergraduate and graduate programs are offered at nearly every land-grant institution, and an increasing number of other schools. In addition, many programs offer a concentration in the food industry. It’s an interdisciplinary science that covers every aspect of food production from field to table, and it is often overlooked, as it is not particularly well-known.

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