In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.
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We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.
After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.
My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.
I'm really into gardening.
Most of my education has been around food.
If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.
When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.
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