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GLOBAL SOURCE EDUCATION
Enriching K-12 Education for the 21st Century
Food, Farming, Culture & Education |
Suggested Resources: General
[This growing list of curricular and community resources represents the suggestions of more than 50 educators and community members
who have come together to discuss and address topics and issues related to food, farming, culture and education. It is by no means exhaustive.
Updated February 12, 2007.]
Program Partners
Trust for Working Landscapes
Laughing Crow Farm
Foodmuse Inspired Catering
Bainbridge Island School District
Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Winery
Literature
- A Language Older than Words, by Derek Jensen (“about many things, but thoughts on interspecies communication is especially relevant to work with young children”)
- Community and the Politics of Place, by Daniel Kemmis (If I were teaching HS civics/social studies; history or whatever they call it now, this is the text I would use. Traces the Jefferson-Madison debate that started at the beginning of our country and applies insights to the politics of a small city/town.)
- Dream of the Earth, by Thomas Berry
- Earth In Mind, by David Orr
- Ecological Literacy, Edited by Stone and Barlow
- Families, Festivals and Food (songs, games, recipes throughout the year)
- Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
- Fields that Dream, by Jenny Kurzweil
- Harvest for Hope, by Jane Goodall
- Hopes Edge, by Frances Moore and & Anna Lappe
- How Mushrooms Saved the World, by Paul Stamets
- Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century, by Howard Gardner (in chpt. 4, he describes "The Naturalist Intelligence")
- Keepers of the Earth (Native American Stories & science curriculum, book & tape)
- Lay of the Land (poems) by Paul Hunter
- Living at Nature's Pace, by Gene Logsdon. (What I really like about Logsdon is that he addresses the economics of food and fibre production and how it relates to the household economies of those who choose to do it. H.S. students would enjoy this book. Good stories and lots of humor.)
- Living Downstream, by Sandra Steingraber
- Living Nature’s Way, by Gene Logsdon
- Mad Cow USA
- My Year of Meats, by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
- Omnivore’s Dilemma & Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
- Stolen Harvest, by Vandina Shiva (“phenomenal introduction to the political economy of global food production/consumption”)
- Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things
- Technology and the Good Life, by Higgs, Light and Strong (This is one of those essay/conversation books where the contributors wrote essays and then exposed them to the other writers. Good stuff. Probably not for a general audience, but quite relevant to curriculum developers. Essay which has immediate relevance to farming on BI is an essay by Paul Thompson "Farming as a Focal Practice.")
- The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, by Patricia Klindienst (features a chapter on Day Road Farmers)
- The Inner Life of the Child in Nature
- The Spiritual Life of Children, by Robert Coles
- The Sustainability Revolution, by Andres Edwards
- Toxic Sludge is Good For You
- Understanding the Global Commons, by Susan Buck
- Why Conservation is Failing and How it Can Regain Ground, by Eric T. Freyfogle (I am reading this now. The various "green" movements are in fact working at cross purposes these days. He untangles all this beginning with Gifford Pinchot and working forward. He is then offers proposals about how to harmonize the various movements including allowing farm interests back into the conversation.)
- Why Some Like It Hot, by Gary Nabhan
- Works of Wendell Berry (http://www.brtom.org/wb/berry.html), including
- Word and Flesh (essay)
- What Are People For (book)
- The Man Born to Farming (poem)
- The Unsettling of America (book)
- Diet for a Small Planet, Francis Moore Lappé
- Periodical: Biocycle (on composting)
- Your Ecological Footprint, University of British Columbia
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Songs
- (Nothing But) Flowers, By Talking Heads
- Apple Picker’s Reel
- Big Yellow Taxi, by Joni Mitchell
- Dirt Ate My Lunch (http://www.songsforteaching.com/bananaslugstringband/dirtmademylunch.htm)
- Faith of Man, by Bill Staines
- Garden Song (and “Anti-Garden Song”)
- Gone Gonna Rise Again
- Keep Your Hands on the Plow (performed by Mahalia Jackson, Ella Jenkins, and others)
- Talkin’ Farm Songs, by Alleyoop
- Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All (recorded by Ry Cooder on Into the Purple Valley)
- The Giving Tree, by Los Lobos
- Songs by Woody Guthrie, including
- Pastures of Plenty
- Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) (“great human rights/family song”)
- This Land is Your Land
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Documentaries/Films
- Broken Limbs (plight of small farms in Eastern WA, www.brokenlimbs.org, good teacher guide)
- End of Suburbia (end of fossil fuel)
- Fast Food Nation
- Future of Food (Lily Films, http://www.thefutureoffood.com/)
- Life and Debt (plight of local farmers in Jamaica) http://www.lifeanddebt.org/
- Store Wars http://www.StoreWars.org (you need to check out this on-line video)
- Super Size Me http://www.supersizeme.com/
- The Man Who Planted Trees
- The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
- Teaching of the Tree People, Islandwood
Other Sources
- Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Winery: http://www.bainbridgevineyards.com/
- Laughing Crow Farm
- Edible Schoolyard: http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/
- Secondary Sources about Bainbridge Island History: Port Blakely; Port Madison, Glimpses of Bainbridge Island , Bainbridge through Bifocals
- 4H & Cooperative Extension (has great curriculum materials for all levels)
- Center for Eco-Literacy Rethinking School Lunch Program: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/programs/rsl.html
- Slow Food USA: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/contact/index.html
- Slow Food Seattle: http://www.slowfoodseattle.org/
- Eat Grub: http://www.eatgrub.org/
- Rethinking Schools Magazine (Summer 2006 issue on Food & Education, on-line: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/)
- Rethinking Globalization, Edited by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson (chapter called “Just Food” with readings and lessons for secondary students
- The Nation, Sept. 11, 2006 Issue on Food: http://www.thenation.com/issue/20060911
- The Vegetable-Industrial Complex, By Micheal Pollan, New York Times Magazine, October 15, 2006
- PR Watch (Center for Media and Democracy website, list serve)
- "The Right to Food: A Window on the World" A new global education project was launched to raise awareness about hunger and the right to food among children and young people around the world. Educating young people and motivating them to join in the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and eight individual stories dedicated to illustrating aspects of food security and right to food issues in Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Sierra Leone and Uganda. The book and the Resource and Activity Guide are available in six languages in both hard copy and electronic formats, including as a CD-ROM and as web-based HTML and PDF files. To order the books, send an e-mail to: mailto:RTF-Youth@fao.org
- Tufts University has a FABULOUS listserv from the Community Food Security Coalition that address many sustainable issues, including milk containing growth hormones etc that are served in schools.
- www.composters.com
- Beneficial Bug Farms
- Field Trips: Pike Place Market, Neighborhood Farmers Markets
- Island Stewards: Bring living stories into classroom
- Library garden, local farms and gardens
- Project Wombat: Reference Librarian on the Internet who loves difficult questions.
- Speaker: Alice Waters
- Speaker: Ann Lovejoy (BI) growing plants organically (non-toxic)
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