Regrann from @maximumyield - #MaxFact: Kimbal Musk Leads a Mission to Fix Food in US Schools | In 2011, Kimbal Musk started a nonprofit program that brought learning gardens to 300 US public schools. Now, he’s renamed the program Big Green and has plans to expand. In April, 100 schools in Detroit will break ground on their own learning gardens, which are part playground and part outdoor classroom spaces where students learn about growing food. Big Green will then extend to Colorado Springs, Louisville, Long Beach, and San Antonio. In all, $25 million will go into the program, which hopes to see 100 gardens in each location by the end of 2020. “Kids today are totally disconnected from real food. The industrial food that we create is high-calorie, low in nutrients, doesn’t taste good, and shipped from thousands of miles away. And we’ve been creating a massive amount of obesity and diabetes,” Musk says in an interview with Business Insider. “In some low-income communities, nearly 40 per cent of kids will go into kindergarten [overweight or] obese. That’s just unforgivable. That’s not something they did to themselves; it’s something we did to them. It’s time that we realize that it’s a human right to understand what we are putting in our bodies.”—via @businessinsider . . #maximumyield #maxfacts #aquaponics #hydroponics #permaculture #cultivation #garden #gardening #agriculture #horticulture #gardener #gardenchat #gardentips #gardeninglife #growtips #gardeningtips #gardeningclass #gardening101 #gardennerd #gardengeek #urbanagriculture #farming #farmer #farmlife #growbusiness #news - #regrann
