School Garden Plugmob Alert
Irrepressible school garden advocate Mud Baron has announced the first plugmob of 2012. Representatives of school gardens can benefit from Mud’s work at the San Pedro Science Center and his network of donors and take away seeds and seedlings to get a garden started or to supplement plantings that are already underway. Details noted below. [...]
Tell the LAUSD You Want Better Food For Los Angeles Students
Dr. John Deasy is about to take the helm of the Los Angeles Unified School District, and Slow Food Los Angeles is joining with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, USC’s Childhood Obesity Research Center, Food for Lunch, the Garden School Foundation, Kidding Around the Kitchen, and RootDownLA to encourage the public to let Dr. Deasy and [...]
Helping Students Speak Out… About School Lunch
Taking the opportunity presented by the broadcast of Season 2 of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and the arrival of a new superintendent, John Deasy, Slow Food Los Angeles has joined with several Los Angeles organizations to support improvements to the LAUSD’s school breakfast and lunch programs and to the District’s overall approach to food: in [...]
Los Angeles Times op-ed: “Our Schools’ Sweet Tooth”
Today’s Los Angeles Times features an op-ed by Emily Ventura on the need to pay closer attention to the sugar content in school food: Soft drinks were banned in Los Angeles schools in 2004. But if you think that means kids are protected from too much sugar at school, think again. Children are regularly able [...]
Valentine’s Day at the LAUSD
Emily Ventura shares an update on Slow Food Los Angeles’s social action efforts on the school lunch issue: Last Monday’s rally to support a reduction in sugar in the LAUSD food was a success! Thanks to the Slow Food LA members who participated. Mary MacVean of the Los Angeles Times covered the event, and her [...]
“Froot Loops or Fruit?”: Why President Obama’s Response Matters to Slow Food
As part of a recent YouTube interview, President Obama responded to questions posed by individuals about a range of issues. Of more than 140,000 questions submitted, a simple one posed by Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel was selected. Josh had the opportunity to put it directly to the President: Why is it cheaper to [...]
LAUSD Sugar Fact Sheets
Two fact sheets detailing the high sugar content of LAUSD meals–and what you can do to call for change–have been prepared by Emily Ventura in collaboration with colleagues at the Childhood Obesity Center at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. (An English-language fact sheet is on the left; a Spanish-language sheet is on the right.)
Tell the LAUSD to “Take Back the Sugar” on Valentine’s Day
Emily Ventura, the chairperson of Slow Food Los Angeles’s social action committee, is working with LAUSD parents and community advocates to call for improved food in our public schools. We share a late-breaking update from her about an event this Monday: Do Good this Valentine’s Day: Rally for the Kids of Los Angeles Tired of [...]
Garden School Foundation’s Harvest Moon Fundraiser (and Workdays)
The Garden School Foundation invites Slow Food members and friends to Harvest Moon 2010, its autumn fundraiser to support the Foundation’s projects. All proceeds will benefit the Foundation, and those attending will enjoy hors d’oeuvres from Canelé restaurant and a live performance by The Silver Lake Chorus. When: Saturday, November 20, 2010 from 5:00pm until [...]
Nourish: Food + Community
With public interest in food issues at an all-time high, Nourish: Food + Community invites families to consider the vital question: “What’s the story of my food?” Nourish is a multi-year media and education initiative with the goal of opening a broad and meaningful public conversation about our food system that encourages citizen engagement, particularly [...]
Next Garden School Foundation Workday Scheduled
The next Garden School Foundation workday has been announced and will be held on Saturday, March 27, at the 24th Street School (2055 West 24th Street, in Los Angeles). If you’re interested in contributing to the school’s efforts to develop its garden and are available between 9:00am and noon, please contact Nat Zappia, the GSF [...]
News from the LA Sprouts Program
The L.A. Sprouts after-school program at the Milagro Allegro Community Garden is in full swing. Reports thus far are that the 4th- and 5th-grade students from the Loreto Elementary School are quite the team of enthusiastic young gardeners and cooks! To improve the quality of their lessons, the Milagro Allegro Community Garden is using a [...]
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