Food in Schools

As the parent of a child who will be entering kindergarten this coming fall, I'm in a position to be newly conscious of the quality of food in schools. Here are several items of interest:

At Chews Wise, Sam Fromartz points to the blog of former reporter who spent a week in Washington, D.C. schools and wrote a six-part series about what kids eat, Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen.

At the Slow Food blog, here's a roundup of recent school lunch news.

In the wake of the Caitlin Flanagan hullaballoo, here's an excellent post at Civil Eats about school gardens around the country, and a list of resources for those interested in creating them (me, me, me!). Though it was hardly my first exposure to gardening, I will always remember the school garden started by my grade school science teacher. I helped out sometimes, and I remember the tall staked tomatoes seemed positively Amazonian.

Gulf coast readers, are you aware of any school garden projects in your communities?

ADDITION 3 Feb 10: Check out this blog by a teacher in Illinois who is eating school lunch like the kids every day in 2010. Here's the Slow Food blog post.