All you need to know to get fresher, healthier and greener food into your child's school - from nurseries to primary and secondary schools
… How to campaign for better school food Laura Sevier | 25th March 2010 … Food And Farming Health Soil Association School Food Matters Jackie Schneider Organix Better Nursery Food Now School Food Trust Jamie Oliver …
Vocal school food campaigner Jackie Schneider on parent power, the importance of cooking from scratch and why free school meals would be the most cost-effective solution
… March 2010 Comment Food And Farming Health School Food Campaign Better Food For Schools Food For Life School Dinners Education jackieimage.jpg Vocal …
Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful pesticides, but schools claim safer alternatives would be 'uneconomic'
… Contractors using dangerous pesticides in UK schools The Ecologist | 14th January 2010 News Food And Farming Schools Pesticides Health pouring chemical.jpg Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful …
Tips for passing on green fingers, and a taste for vegetables, to your sprogs
… Green Living Food And Farming Gardening School Food Soil Association Roots And Shoots … to December on the website . The Growing Schools website has a fantastic search … small groups into the apiary when visiting. School rules What kind of food messages does …
Ask those involved in public food procurement if they would like to see fresh, local ingredients on menus and they will say yes. Then they will list all the reasons why it wouldn't work. Not so, argues Maria Cross - and here's how
… Food And Farming Public Procurement School Food Soil Association procurement.jpg … is that public sector institutions, including schools and hospitals, have been given the … food in public institutions, including schools. The year before, the Italian Ministry …
Teacher Jamie Feilden came up with the idea of bringing at-risk students to his family's Somerset farm for a week in 2004. Six years on and the results are breathtaking...
… morning, he'd normally be getting ready for school. But today, it's into the waiting truck … Jamie Feilden was teaching at a South London school with a high rate of exclusions and … brought two lambs from his family's farm to school. The reaction of the students surprised …
Libby Grundy, Food for Life Director at the Soil Association, talks to the Ecologist about the food challenges facing the planet and what's inspiring her work...
… And Farming Soil Association Blogs childrenschool.jpg Libby Grundy, Food for Life … missed. On a more positive note, the School Food Plan due to be launched any day by … Department for Education, should finally give school food and food education the emphasis it …
The Food for Life 'Catering Mark' is bringing fresh, healthy and local food into schools, hospitals and canteens, writes Peter Melchett - while driving big increases in the volume of organic food we eat, and growing the market for organic farmers and local food producers.
… bringing fresh, healthy and local food into schools, hospitals and canteens, writes Peter … that this processed meat food, widespread in school meals, contained one third turkey meat … for food served in workplaces, hospitals, schools, care homes and restaurants across the …
Awareness of pesticide-use in public areas used by children is low but the health dangers demand our attention
… Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners Tom Levitt | 25th … talking about pesticide use in parks and schools. We want to get health groups and … Contractors using dangerous pesticides in UK schools Survey finds that school children are …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… nature and growing healthy food on a farm, a school garden or an allotment then in the long … with children "by accident" when setting up School Farm at Dartington Hall in the 1980's. … on the 8-acre site. Every day the local pre-school group would wend their way after lunch …
From school dinners to farmers' markets and GM crops, SATISH KUMAR explains why our relationship with food is so important and what he thinks makes food really wholesome.
… Organic Food Organic Farming satish.jpg From school dinners to farmers' markets and GM … some other helpers, I established The Small School in Hartland. The very first day, when … and teachers gathered, I asked how this school would be different from any other. The …
Palestinian children as young as 11 work on Israeli farms in the occupied West Bank, an HRW investigation reveals. While the EU buys produce worth $300m a year from the illegal 'settlements', undocumented child labourers are exposed to pesticides, paid well below the minimum wage, enjoy no employment rights, and toil long hours in hot fields and greenhouses.
… agricultural industry. Many drop out of school and work in conditions that can be … One 18-year-old said that he quit school in Grade 10 because, as he explained, … we interviewed said they had dropped out of school. Teachers and principals told us that …
Public will not have to be notified when crops, fields or parks are being sprayed with pesticides potentially harmful to their health, despite warnings from the British Medical Association
… in areas used by vulnerable groups, such as school playing fields and parks, will also be … use of pesticides in the locality of homes, schools, children’s playgrounds, hospitals and … NEWS Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners Awareness of …
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports
… to thank for that. 'When I came home from school and told them about it, it was the … lunch table at Watsonville's Renaissance High School on a bright Tuesday morning, Carolina … things you would expect to hear from high school seniors—homework deadlines, graduation, …
Children may be more likely to turn to sugary drinks and ice-creams because of a lack of working water fountains in public parks in the UK, says campaign group
… have access to free, safe drinking water in schools and public parks,' she said. The … MAKE A DIFFERENCE How to campaign for better school food All you need to know to get … healthier and greener food into your child's school - from nurseries to primary and …
It's the UK's National Vegetarian Week but what's on the veggie menu at your local bar, pub or bistro? If it's mushroom risotto - again - have a word with the chef because there's no excuse for those second-rate meals that should have been left behind in the 1970s. Susan Clark goes in search of Fine Dining for non-meat eaters
… me, very happily, at the Ashburton Cookery School ( www.ashburtoncookeryschool.co.uk ) in South Devon. I say happily … Spielberg filmed War Horse (b) the cookery school has been established for over a decade, …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… to toxic crop sprays near their homes, schools, children's playgrounds will be … spraying in the locality of residents homes, schools, children's playgrounds, nurseries … safety for residents, or children attending schools and playgrounds near sprayed crops, …
The Soil Association doesn't need to 'get back to its roots', writes Helen Browning - because it never left them! It remains firmly committed to its founders' original organic mission for health, environment and animal welfare. And that means reaching out to a broader public, ensuring that organic principles are ever more widely understood and applied.
… farmers, and with many other people in schools, hospitals and society more widely. We … eat better food, including organic, in schools and hospitals for instance. We work with schools across the UK transforming food …
When people take part in the seasonal and cyclical activites of growth they are more able to put things into perspective - to make decisions that are governed by life-sustaining principles over and above financial incentive
… feeds the community. During his first year at school Isaac’s teacher noted that he spent … ‘Why did we have to plant potatoes in pots at school?’ Angus: ‘Why can you only learn things … classrooms?’ Isaac: ‘Why do we have to go to school when we need to help with the …
Alice Waters on dining with the Dalai Lama, edible schoolyards and life in Berkeley, USA
… Waters on dining with the Dalai Lama, edible schoolyards and life in Berkeley, USA Can you … Jonathan Kozol’s books on the US public school system, particularly The Shame of the Nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America, have had a profound …
Are you a ‘premium loyal’, a ‘loyal low spender’, a ‘can’t stay away’… or don’t you care? Tesco does, and uses the data collected from your loyalty card to dictate what you buy, when you buy and how much you buy.
… phone service, and in 2000 it launched Tesco SchoolNet, which is now the largest school internet service in the world. When … do so. Tesco has long seen linking up with schools as a great way to get its name out …
New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the interests of public health
… was criticised last year for supplying schools with burger vouchers offered to pupils … giant also offers free course packs to schools through ‘education business … The Ecologist asked McDonald’s if its work in schools was comparable to the aggressive …
From Slough to the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden & Wildlife Project in Brighton, Warren Carter is a radical food grower on a mission to transform the lives of troubled youngsters. Jan Goodey meets him
… long term unemployed, refugees, and excluded school kids - can get tips on wholesome food. … from nearby Moulsecoomb Primary, other local schools and the Swan Centre (support for … awards, environment awards...[2008 Best School Grounds in the South East of England]. …
Pastoralism is in crisis across Africa. But it could yet survive as the best available defence against climate change and famine. Tom Levitt reports from southern Ethiopia
… communities often work in shifts, going to school when they are not looking after … them into areas with improved services like schools, water supplies and healthcare. By … pastoralist. 'In the past we did not go to school, now children go and earn money,' he …