The Edible Schoolyard is a project developed by Alice Waters a local chef in Berkley, California. Chef Waters developed the program to help urban students learn about where their food comes from. It was an idea originally to improve cafeteria lunches for the students and has since snowballed from there. Students have a one acre garden that they plant and weed and fertilize. They not only learn how to grow food but, they also learn teamwork and a since of community.
All academic courses are covered with the time spent working in the garden. And students who may not be the best math or science students but, work well with their hands now have an opportunity to shine. The garden provides students real life uses for the subjects they learn in the classroom and can now see how those skills are useful in the real world.
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