Chef Alice Waters to break ground on edible schoolyard
Chef Alice Waters will break ground for an Edible Schoolyard at the Greensboro Children's Museum.
Waters and the Chez Panisse Foundation have designated the museum as the first museum in the country to implement their public education program, The Edible Schoolyard.
Waters is a chef, author and proprietor of the celebrated Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif. In 1995, she created an Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley to integrate gardening and cooking into the academic curriculum. Since then, two other Edible Schoolyard programs have been created.
"What better place than a children's museum to plant the seeds of sustainability, community and stewardship of the land?" Waters says in a release. "I am thrilled with the new partnership."
The museum's edible schoolyard is expected to open in the spring and will promote organic gardening through planting, growing, harvesting and preparing food. It will be located in the museum's half-acre outdoor play area. A groundbreaking ceremony, which Waters will attend, is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sept. 24.
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