Food Network To Launch Schoolyard Garden Program

From Associated Press writer Scott Lindlaw's interview with Alice Waters in light of upcoming Slow Food Nation:

There even is a partnership with the Food Network, which is planting a mini-garden for children within a larger "victory garden" on display at San Francisco City Hall for the festival.

The network is using the garden—and the Slow Food event as a whole—to announce the launch of a series of sustainable schoolyard gardens it will build around the nation, an effort first hatched by Waters 14 years ago and carried on today by her Chez Panisse Foundation.

Source: Is Slow Food Finally Picking Up Speed in U.S.? (San Jose Mercury News, 22 August 2008)

Let's hope AP distributes the story more widely.

Tips to help encourage your local media to cover gardening for self-sufficiency efforts  here.