On Aug 28, 8:37*am, maxine > wrote:
> On Aug 28, 8:48*am, "Pete C." > wrote:
>
>
>
> > "modom (palindrome guy)" wrote:
>
> > > Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan issued a memo
> > > yesterday that read in part:
>
> > > "Imagine an NGO receiving USDA grant money to construct a community
> > > kitchen where farmers drop off produce and families join cooking
> > > classes that teach about healthy eating while everyone prepares fresh
> > > nutritious meals to bring home...Imagine a community using USDA money
> > > to construct an open-sided structure to house a farmers
> > > market...Imagine a school using USDA loan money to set up cold storage
> > > as part of a larger effort to retrofit the school cafeteria to buy
> > > produce directly from farmers and return cooking capacity for school
> > > lunch...Imagine..."
>
> > > Are we about to see a real change in USDA policy, a change that favors
> > > farmers and cooks and eaters over ag corporations?
>
> > > Full memo is he
> > >http://civileats.com/wp-content/uplo...d-memo.doc.pdf
> > > --
>
> > > modom
>
> > Imagine public schools teaching a composite nutrition / basic cooking
> > type class so people have the knowledge and skills to purchase healthy
> > foods regardless of whether their lettuce comes from a small farm in the
> > same state, or one of those evil aq corporation hydroponic greenhouses
> > in Canada. Imagine local school boards spending the funds they receive
> > wisely upgrading their cafeteria instead of hiring more administrators.
>
> Might as well imagine whirled *peas. *I can hear the opposition
> screaming that you'll take their bacon double cheeseburger out of
> their cold dead hands before you'll shove healthy eating down their
> throats.

Our school district is doing it!

Look:
http://www.mrhsd.org/pdfs/Menus/2009...9lunchElem.PDF
http://www.fox2now.com/news/mornings...,3818562.story
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lif...2?OpenDocument
http://food-management.com/fm_innova...709/index.html
http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com...tinschool0.txt
http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlou...6/daily31.html

We are not a high per capita income district. Far from it.
"Percentage of students with free/reduced lunch: 52.9%"
source-- http://www.city-data.com/school/mrh-elem-mo.html

The whole thing is really inspiring to me. Maplewood and Richmond
Heights are also starting a community garden, which I'm involved with,
and when my son is a little older, I want to start informal cooking
lessons for our neighborhood, utilizing produce from both my back yard
and my community garden plot.

So, Maxine. If you want to see those peas a-whirling, I guess you
need to come to Richmond Heights, Missouri.
>
> maxine in ri
> who might be depressed again

--Bryan