The aim of this study was to investigate whether organic school meals can be an effective strategy to provide healthy food to children and promote their healthy eating habits.
But, at least as far as education is concerned, it resulted in a liberal, progressive attitude that resonates deeply with current concerns about individual and social development and responsibility - not to mention lovely organic school meals.
27 High Street, CF10 1PU; 029 2022 4817; thepottedpig.com Riverford Field Kitchen, Totnes The restaurant arm of the farm and veg box business has a long list of ethical commitments, including cooking organic school dinners for children at nearby Landscove primary school.
Notably, FP seeks to catalyze replication of its organic school and provides resources to help others establish self-sufficient schools.
More positive school lunch habits were observed in pupils in the organic schools than in the non-organic schools.
Or visit the Henry Doubleday Research Association website (hdra.org.uk/schools_organic_network/index.htm), which runs an organic schools network, or the Soil Association website (soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/resources/education.html), which lists organic farms that welcome school visits.
This is called unschooling, or less often, deschooling, eclectic schooling, organic schooling and relaxed home schooling, where parents respond to a child's talents and interests in guiding their learning rather than imposing a conventional curriculum.
In this course, experts on organic agriculture, school lunch reform, food safety, hunger and food security, farm bill reform, farm-to-school efforts, urban agriculture, food sovereignty, and local food economies will offer perspectives making the food system more sustainable and equitable.
And what about the real Prince Charles, a man who isn't king yet but who has a royal position and many, many strong opinions — on architecture, organic farming, school reform — along with a tendency to lobby for them?
Stonyfield Farm, which started as a money-raising arm for a nonprofit organic dairy school and still has a progressive bent, has been working on the problem longer than most.
Initially he also directed the Rural Education Center, the small organic farming school from which Stonyfield was spawned.
