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• Changing the School Lunch Scene

  Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | Filed under Health and Nutrition

  Salisbury steak, corn dogs, rectangular pizza. We can all remember some of the regular menu items from our school lunches. But what about "Elotes Washington" (corn brushed with cayenne and parmesan), Creole vegetable hash or carrot cupcakes?

  

  Students from Chicago-area high schools put forth these ideas and many more at the "Cooking Up Change" event back in November. This event is put on by the Healthy Schools Campaign and the flagship context in Chicago has now been replicated in other cities and with a national-level event held in Washington, DC in May. Teams of high school students work ...

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• Blue Mesa Grill Dinner Benefiting Pershing Elementary's REAL School Garden

  Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | Filed under Sustainability and Funding , Health and Nutrition , Community , Family Activities , REAL Supporters

   

  Community Night is an opportunity for schools or not-for-profit groups to have a great fundraiser at Blue Mesa Grill. This Thursday evening, November 15, 2012 at 6:30 pm, Blue Mesa Grill in Addison is hosting a Community Night dinner benefiting the REAL school learning garden at John J. Pershing Elementary (Dallas ISD). 

   

   

   

  All friends and community members are invited to enjoy creations featuring spinach, lettuce and cilantro grown in the REAL school garden at John J. Pershing Elementary.  Dinner will be $20.00 per person with 25% of the proceeds donated back to the Pershing school learning ...

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• A Grow-able Feast

  Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Filed under Health and Nutrition , Community

  Every fall, REAL School Gardens partners with GRACE Restaurant to provide students at several of our school partners in Fort Worth with a unique opportunity to grow, learn and eat together! This year, four of our Fort Worth schools are participating and have been growing dedicated crops of green beans, lettuce, carrots and Swiss chard to be transformed into a gourmet meal by award-winning chef, Blaine Staniford.

  

  Chef Staniford will be headed out to visit participating schools this week to check on the progress of his ingredients and to spend some time with the young growers who make this ...

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• Weeds As Teachers

  Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Health and Nutrition , Science

   

   

   

   

  Walking through an elementary school I found the following quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson framed and hanging in the school hall “A weed is a plant whose virtue has not yet been discovered”. This means that of all the tools, foods, medicines and fibers that have been discovered from the world of plants called weeds, there are still new plants and new uses of the plants to discover.

  The student pictured above has samples of two weeds pulled from the school garden that were plants used historically as a flavoring, a spice and an edible food. ...

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• When I Grow Up: This Apple Didn't Fall Too Far from the Tree

  Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Student Behavior , Health and Nutrition , Family Activities

   

  I had an epiphany when an acquaintance described himself as the “green sheep” of his family.  “Wow,” I thought,” that’s what I am!” 

  It wasn’t until they read an article recently published in Dallas Child magazine that my family seemed to finally understand what it is that REAL School Gardens does and why we do it.   They seemed to think I spend my days digging in dirt, trying to convince elementary students to eat their veggies.  Of course, the vegetables are an important part, but a small part, of our efforts to increase student engagement ...

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• DIY in DFW: Gardening on a Shoestring Budget

  Tuesday, September 18, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Health and Nutrition , Art in the Garden , Community

  So you have a passion to garden but not a whole lot of money to invest in your own garden?  Never fear, you can still have your own garden even if you only have a shoestring budget to work with, by utilizing DIY (Do-It-Yourself) gardening projects.     

   

  Just do a simple internet search of “DIY gardening” and a plethora of websites, full of ideas for projects, big and small, will appear before you.  Even if you have the money to invest but are not sure where or how to start, with the DIY gardening projects, you can learn ...

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• Seed Stars: FoodCorps Celebrates a Successful Inaugural Year of Growth

  Tuesday, August 21, 2012 | Filed under Volunteering , Health and Nutrition , Community

   

  In its first year, the national volunteer initiative, FoodCorps, sent over 50 volunteer service members to sites across 10 states.  With a mission to give all youth an enduring relationship with healthy food, young volunteers across the nation set out to:

  • Teach kids about what healthy food is and where it comes from
  • Build and tend school gardens
  • Bring high-quality local food into public school cafeterias

  FoodCorps is a part of the AmeriCorps network, a national volunteer service organization that puts over 70,000 service members to work across the nation each year.  AmeriCorp service members can get ...

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• Garbage In - Garbage Out

  Tuesday, July 31, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Health and Nutrition , Instructional Aids

   

   

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  Noun: garbage - food that is discarded (as from a kitchen), food waste, refuse, scraps.

  And so it is that by cooking fresh produce in my kitchen (most often from the garden, less often from the market) I find there is an amount of less desirous plant parts that no one wishes to eat, unless of course as an example, you take a liking to sweet potato peel soup. There was a time that dish was actually served to me and that is when I discovered composting.

   

  The alchemy of composting whereby garbage from ...

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• The Dish: Grillin’ & Chillin’ in the Sizzlin’ Summer Heat

  Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | Filed under Health and Nutrition

   

  Photo courtesy of KTTC Television, Inc.( KTTC.com)                        

   

  We’re in the peak of the season of summer, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Texas.  As you enjoy the summer pool parties, cookouts, vacations and other festive occasions of the season, celebrate summer in cool style with a couple of recipes for the grill that are big on flavor, yet still light, refreshing and healthy.  

   

  Grilled Chicken with Strawberry and Pineapple Salsa

  By The American Heart Association (recipe found here)    

   

  Photo courtesy of Disneyfamily.com  

   

  Grilled pineapple and fresh mint ...

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• Fuzzy Math 1+1=3

  Friday, June 29, 2012 | Filed under Health and Nutrition , Social Engineering , Smart Potatoes

  Teamwork is an entity; an entity is by definition that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving).  You see, you and me make we, a third entity; two individuals thoughts or actions become expressed, intertwined and synthesized for a third way of looking at things, expressing ideas and getting things done.

   

  Teamwork is what makes the world go ’round; teamwork is what makes the gardens grow. The “Smart Potatoes” enterprise initiated by REAL School Gardens in concert with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) and 30 elementary schools in ...

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