Edible Education

By Maegan Clark

October 3, 2019

Last Updated: November 2, 2010

by WorldLink staff

How can schools help kids make healthy food choices? In this new video from the Nourish Video Encyclopedia, Edible Schoolyard founder Alice Waters talks about the value of garden and kitchen experiences in transforming students’ relationship to food.

Next week we’ll be announcing an innovative new Nourish school curriculum to help teachers bring food education into the classroom. Stay tuned.

And be sure to watch the award-winning PBS special Nourish: Food + Community, which features Cameron Diaz, Michael Pollan, and others, airing on select stations nationwide. Find a PBS broadcast in your area.


Alice Waters is a chef, cookbook author, and founder of the Chez Panisse Foundation, which supports educational programs that use food to nurture, educate, and empower youth. She created the Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School, comprised of a one-acre garden, an adjacent kitchen-classroom, and an “eco-gastronomic” curriculum.

Nourish is a national educational initiative designed to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability. With a distinctly positive vision, Nourish celebrates both food and community. Learn more at www.nourishlife.org.

Watch for more selections from the Nourish Video Encyclopedia, a collection of short films that explore the story of our food.

Be part of the food revolution. Nourish yourself. Nourish the world.

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Nourish is a program of WorldLink, a non-profit organization dedicated to education for sustainability. Heifer International is a sponsor of the Nourish initiative.