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A list of our recommended resources and websites that we found useful, insightful or just plain fun: .
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The Baum Forum
The Baum Forum is a program of conferences and seminars held periodically to focus public and restaurant industry attention on food and agricultural issues. It's mission is to stimulate debate and help create informed decision-makers, from culinary students and professional food and beverage purchasers to home chefs and public policy makers. ( http://www.baumforum.org/ ) |
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Better School Food
is an non profit organization that is raising awareness of the connection between food and childrens health, behavior and learning. ( http://www.betterschoolfood.org ) |
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Garden Rant - Uprooting the Gardening World.
We Are: Convinced that gardening MATTERS. Bored with perfect magazine gardens. In love with real, rambling, chaotic, dirty, bug-ridden gardens. Suspicious of the "horticultural industry." Delighted by people with a passion for plants. Appalled by chemical warfare in the garden. Turned off by any activities that involve "landscaping" with "plant materials." Flabbergasted at the idea of a "no maintenance garden." Gardening our asses off. Having a hell of a lot of fun! ( http://www.gardenrant.com )
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Kids Gardening
is the best general resource on the internet for everything relating to school gardens. The links on this site leads to a great resource of information on curriculum information for teachers, a wealth of materials for parents and many, many detailed examples of successful school garden projects throughout the United States. ( http://www.kidsgardening.org/ ) |
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Mar Jennings
lifestyle expert and author of Life on Mar’s: A Four Season Garden, is host and executive producer of The Mar Jennings Home & Garden Show, a 30-minute lifestyle series which presents affordable, creative and inspiring projects to dress up your home, garden and life with instructional segments on gardening, cooking and green living. ( http://www.marjennings.com ) |
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Stone Barns Centerfor Food and Agriculture
is a farm, a kitchen, a classroom, an exhibit, a laboratory, a campus. The mission of this unique, nonprofit collaboration is to celebrate, teach and advance community-based food production and enjoyment, from farm to classroom to plate. ( http://www.stonebarnscenter.org )
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Two Angry Moms
Two Angry Moms is a documentary that asks the question: What happens when two 'fed-up' moms try to change the school lunch program? Two Angry Moms, is a growing movement that has touched parents, schools and kids across the nation. Its mission includes getting real food into school cafeterias, as an alternative to the neon green slushies, greasy fries, supersize cookies and other junk foods that have
become a daily staple for many school-aged children. ( http://www.angrymoms.org ) |
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
is a non-profit organization committed to expanding sustainable building practices. USGBC is composed of more than 13,500 organizations from across the building industry that are working to advance structures that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work. Members includes building owners and end-users, real estate developers, facility managers, architects, designers, engineers, general contractors, subcontractors, product and building system manufacturers, government agencies, and nonprofits. ( http://www.usgbc.org ) |
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Kids Regen
maintained by The Rodale Institute's Youth Educational Program, a non-profit charity dedicated to sharing its expertise on organic/regenerative farming methods with people worldwide to achieve a regenerative food system that renews environmental and human health. This site offers information, games, contests and a variety of other materials, for children, educators and parents. ( http://kidsregen.org/ ) |
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We are extremely proud that Meadow Pond Elementary School in South Salem, New York -- using a Teich School Garden System -- received a Special Recognition Award in the Rodale Institute's 2006 Organic School Garden contest, a national competition that recognizes and rewards the most outstanding organic school garden projects in the country. ( http://kidsregen.org/gardens/2006/meadowpond.php )
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