Edible School Yard

• The Edible Schoolyard in NewYork and Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation
• Aims to educate school children about food:

1. where it comes from
2. what real fresh foods taste like.

• The Edible Schoolyard is designed to:

1. produce energy
2. collect rainwater
3. process compost
4. recycle.

• The school features:
  

1. a kitchen classroom
   
2. a greenhouse (where children learn about ecology, learn to take care of plants and to become stewards of their environment)

Source: http://sustainabledesignupdate.com/