food education
How is Common Roots helping to provide food eduction?
Through community donations, Common Roots supports two food educators who each work 25 hours a week in our K-12 schools. Additionally, Common Roots has two University of Vermont interns who work on the food education team. Collectively, they provide classroom lessons on the vegetable of the month, conduct taste-testings in the lunchroom, facilitate field trips to our farm partners, and have been available for curricular connections grades 6-12.
Updates from the Food Education program:
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Food For Thought
"Consider how Americans might respond to a proposal that agriculture was to become a
mandatory subject in all schools, alongside reading and mathematics. A fair number of
parents would get hot under the collar to see their kid's attention being pulled away from
the essentials of grammar, the all-important trigonometry, to make room for down on the
farm stuff. The baby-boom psyche embraces a powerful presumption that education is a
key to moving away from manual labor and dirt – two undeniable ingredients of farming.
It's good enough for us that somebody, somewhere, knows food production well enough
to serve the rest of us with all we need to eat, each day of our lives.
If that is true, why isn't it good enough for someone else to know multiplication and the
contents of the Bill of Rights? Is the story of bread, from tilled ground to our table, less
relevant to our lives than the history of 13 colonies? Couldn't one make a case for the
relevance of a subject that informs choices we make daily – as in, 'What's for dinner?'
Isn't ignorance of our food sources causing problems as diverse as over-dependence on
petroleum, and an epidemic of diet-related diseases?"