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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To know a community is to know its food.
We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
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.
It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
Typically, market-driven growth spawns urbanisation and leads to migration. Urban centres expand into humongous entities that thrive on an unending supply of energy.
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.