San Francisco Chronicle's March 22nd paper featured a series of articles on urban farming. The many innovative approaches to growing food in an urban setting, such as school gardens, appear to be attracting the attention of city planners. The series ends with an invitation to us readers to share our own thoughts on urban farming with the Chronicle's Kitchen Gardener. Email them and share!
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
SF, Take our School Food Survey!
If you are a San Francisco student, parent, teacher, principal, community organization, or taxpayer, your voice is needed on SF school food! Take our short survey now.
In 2003, San Francisco’s public schools created a ground-breaking Wellness Policy that led the way to boldly removing vending machines and junk food from our city’s public schools. Since then, federal mandates have required that all districts create such Wellness Policies, adding power to the messages contained in ours.
Now, we have an opportunity to further raise the bar and to articulate what truly healthy schools for our city’s youth would look like! We have put together some possible additions to the SFUSD Wellness Policy—ideas gathered from other schools—including: encouraging more nutrition education through school gardens, more fresh produce that is locally grown, more recycling in the cafeterias, more opportunities for physical activity, and more connections between what students learn about healthy eating and the foods we offer at school. We want to connect the dots between a healthy environment, healthy youth, and our city’s schools!
We’ve created a survey that asks your priorities in these areas, including drafts of sample policies. These are just rough ideas so we need all the input we can get. We will share your priorities with the district’s Student Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee for consideration in revisions of the policy.
Click Here to take our Survey
Please take the survey as soon as possible – by this Friday or at least Monday if you can!
For some background on our involvement in this work, please read About Urban Sprouts: History.
In 2003, San Francisco’s public schools created a ground-breaking Wellness Policy that led the way to boldly removing vending machines and junk food from our city’s public schools. Since then, federal mandates have required that all districts create such Wellness Policies, adding power to the messages contained in ours.
Now, we have an opportunity to further raise the bar and to articulate what truly healthy schools for our city’s youth would look like! We have put together some possible additions to the SFUSD Wellness Policy—ideas gathered from other schools—including: encouraging more nutrition education through school gardens, more fresh produce that is locally grown, more recycling in the cafeterias, more opportunities for physical activity, and more connections between what students learn about healthy eating and the foods we offer at school. We want to connect the dots between a healthy environment, healthy youth, and our city’s schools!
We’ve created a survey that asks your priorities in these areas, including drafts of sample policies. These are just rough ideas so we need all the input we can get. We will share your priorities with the district’s Student Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee for consideration in revisions of the policy.
Click Here to take our Survey
Please take the survey as soon as possible – by this Friday or at least Monday if you can!
For some background on our involvement in this work, please read About Urban Sprouts: History.
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