Archive for the ‘School Gardens’ Category

There is no time in history that I can think of where food has been so disrepected and taken for granted like the present. The very building blocks of sustaining our existence have been diminished down to whatever source that can provide them the quickest, cheapest and with the least preperation and cooking time required to get something onto a plate.

Supermarkets have taken over our lives. The branded goods that control our weekly shopping trolley groan under the sheer weight of false allegiance. Loyalty counts for very little these days. I know that when I do the shopping I speed around the ailses putting the same goods in my trolley that I did last week. However, the sections I struggle with the most is the meat section and the produce section. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the core passions behind setting up my business is to find ways to educate children in not only healthy eating but also education of the food cycle. I am currently training some adults of varying ages in my corporate workplace and not one of them new whether it took a rooster for a chicken to produce eggs. We really have fallen a long way in our understanding of food and the processes involved of where it comes from and how it is produced, packaged and transported to our dining room table. Read the rest of this entry »