Yes!  this is not a new idea (remember the 70s when they did this on rooftops in NYC) but one that needs repeating.  I loved the little boy talking about composting… what little boy (or girl) doesn’t like to play around in the dirt!?  A great chance to take that teach them to grow stuff too.

(It reminded me of when my daughter was little and would come home after playing outside with pockets filled with roly poly’s… oh, those were the days!)

Looking forward to watching this on Sunday!

Thanks Lesley, I watch 60 minutes every week anyway, but I look forward to this interview. 

 The time has more than come for Americans to change their eating habits, and the slow food movement is perfect. Along with Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, who wrote the most important book I have read in years, "The Omnivore’s Dilemma" is a huge proponent of local, fresh organic food. He wrote an open letter the the president in the Times magazine calling for a change in our agricultural practices and urged the President to plant a kitchen garden at the White House. 

I am happy to see that Laura Bush AND Michelle Obama are requiring local organic food at the White House … this is just the beginning.

Follow up on this, and please do a piece on Michael Pollan.

When I got my first apartment at twenty, I was alarmed to discover that I did not really know how to cook for myself.  I could read, so I would make recipes from the food sections of newspapers.  But I had really never learned how to make much more than sandwiches, cookies and cakes in home economics.  I think I lived off French Onion soup and ham sandwiches for weeks.  I have since made up for it, learning how to cook many different ways, and now I grow herbs as well.  I sure wish there had been an edible schoolyard when I was a kid!

Alice is a treasure.  I used to bump into her frequently at her breakfast place, Cafe Fanny.   But when I first had breakfast at Chez Panisse in 1971, the dish I had was overcooked, no doubt because they had been discovered and there were more people than cooks.  I do love her cookbooks.  And when I feel like a splurge, there is nothing better than dinner downstairs at Chez Panisse.

 I do hope there will eventually be edible schoolyards across America. 

I always ate organic, as much as possible, no smoking, stayed away from processed stuff, soda, diet stuff. Then plastic for milk, jars, breads, microwaves soaking molecules into the food, aspertame, they made me think we are eating plastic? This was something we have needed instead of the stealing, and hoarding.  I would love to get involved in some way to start in schools. I even have a contest for the schools who win my contest on dogs maybe they will give up some of the Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs - NYTimes.com. To get children involved and dogs, or Is her money going to be disgust it until we find another fraud was don with her fund also.  If anyone wants more details on it, I will come out to NY to show my plan  

I mean, they say they have no money for it but there are Grants and Funds. I have never can get anywhere with great ideas, and no education. the old catch 22.  

I also help people who are dying in their home.  My brother’s ex-wife from 22 years ago whom we stayed friends with has come down with pancreatic cancer stage 4. I also helped my both parents because I feel people need to be treated with dignity, so I will be helping her for she wants no one else, and trust no one else.  I’ll help her spirits lift, and get her to live a little bit longer, and well at least we will keep company, and if Bush didn’t stop the stem cells they would have a cure already!!