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Suggested Resources by Subject

[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.]

Food and Food Systems

• How Mushrooms Saved the World, by Paul Stamets
• 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”)
• Dirt Ate My Lunch (http://www.songsforteaching.com/bananaslugstringband/dirtmademylunch.htm)
• Garden Song (and “Anti-Garden Song”)
• The Giving Tree, by Los Lobos (song)
• Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
• Future of Food (Lily Films, http://www.thefutureoffood.com/)
• Life and Debt (plight of local farmers in Jamaica) http://www.lifeanddebt.org/ (video)
• Store Wars http://www.StoreWars.org (video)
• Super Size Me  http://www.supersizeme.com/ (video)
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (video)
• Edible Schoolyard: http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/
• 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
• "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.
• Field Trips: Pike Place Market, Neighborhood Farmers Markets
• Speaker: Alice Waters

Farming

• Fields that Dream, by Jenny Kurzweil
• Harvest for Hope, by Jane Goodall
• 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.)
• 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)
• Apple Picker’s Reel
• 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)
• Broken Limbs (plight of small farms in Eastern WA, www.brokenlimbs.org, good teacher guide)
• The Man Who Planted Trees (video)
• Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Winery: http://www.bainbridgevineyards.com/
• Laughing Crow Farm
• 4H & Cooperative Extension (has great curriculum materials for all levels)
• www.composters.com
• Beneficial Bug Farms
• Speaker: Ann Lovejoy (BI) growing plants organically (non-toxic)

Farm School Programs

• Library garden, local farms and gardens

School Food Stream

• Washington School Nutrition Association
• OSPI’s Child Nutrition Support (http://www.k12.wa.us/ChildNutrition/default.aspx)
• USDA Food and Nutrition Service on School Meals http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Default.htm
• How Local Farmers and School Food Service Buyers Are Building Alliances
• http://www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/MSB/PDFpubList/localfarmsandschool.pdf
• Innovative Marketing Opportunities for Small Farmers: Local Schools as Customers http://www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/MSB/PDFpubList/InnovativeMarketing.pdf
• "Eat Smart-Farm Fresh! A guide to Buying and Serving Locally-Grown Produce in School Meals."
• "Farm to Cafeteria Connections: Marketing Opportunities for Small Farms in Washington State" notebook and DVD, by the Washington State Dept of Agriculture.  (It has case studies and constructive strategies for success, lots of links, and information about existing state programs.  There's a chapter titled " How to start Farm to Cafeteria in local communities.)
• Edible Schoolyard: http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/
• Center for Eco-Literacy Rethinking School Lunch Program: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/programs/rsl.html
• http://www.lunchlessons.org/
• A Harvest of Health–Its What's for Lunch!, By Sara Tedeschi http://www.organicvalley.coop/culture/school_lunch/healthy_harvest.html
• Brain Food For Your Kids: How Do You Score?, by Dr. Alan Greene, M.D. http://www.organicvalley.coop/culture/school_lunch/brain_food.html
• Center for Eco-Literacy Rethinking School Lunch Program: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/programs/rsl.html
• Slow Food USA Schools
  http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/programs/details/in_schools/

 

Education for Sustainability

• A Language Older than Words, by Derek Jensen (“about many things, but thoughts on interspecies communication is especially relevant to work with young children”)
• Dream of the Earth, by Thomas Berry
• Earth In Mind, by David Orr
• Ecological Literacy, Edited by Stone and Barlow
• 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)
• The Inner Life of the Child in Nature
• The Sustainability Revolution, by Andres Edwards
• 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.)
• 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
  
• Island Stewards: Bring living stories into classroom
• End of Suburbia (end of fossil fuel) (video)
  
• Teaching of the Tree People, Islandwood (video)
• Renewing America's Food Traditions - RAFT, Center for Sustainable
  Environments: http://www.environment.nau.edu/raft/

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• 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.)
• Families, Festivals and Food (songs, games, recipes throughout the year)
• Hopes Edge, by Frances Moore and & Anna Lappe ?
• Lay of the Land (poems) by Paul Hunter
• Living Downstream, by Sandra Steingraber
• Living Nature’s Way, by Gene Logsdon
• Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things?
• The Spiritual Life of Children, by Robert Coles
• Toxic Sludge is Good For You
• Understanding the Global Commons, by Susan Buck
• Why Some Like It Hot, by Gary Nabhan
• (Nothing But) Flowers, By Talking Heads
• Big Yellow Taxi, by Joni Mitchell
• Faith of Man, by Bill Staines
• Gone Gonna Rise Again (song)
• Songs by Woody Guthrie, including
  • Pastures of Plenty
  • Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) (“great human rights/family song”)
  • This Land is Your Land
• Secondary Sources about Bainbridge Island History: Port Blakely; Port Madison, Glimpses of Bainbridge Island , Bainbridge through Bifocals
• PR Watch (Center for Media and Democracy website, list serve)
  
• Project Wombat: Reference Librarian on the Internet who loves difficult questions.
  
  
  

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