30: Stephen Ritz on Healthy Students, Schools, and Communities
The White House Chef, William “Bill” Yosses, is an American chef who is best known as co-author of the book Desserts For Dummies and for being the White House Executive Pastry Chef from 2007 to 2014, joined Stephen and the kids in the classroom!
Make an impact in your classroom! Help your students plant the seeds of their future in your classroom garden. If kids grow food, they eat food.
What makes this program successful?
It starts with incredible kids like these, who come early and stay late. All of his kids are either IEP or ELL learners. Most come with a lot of handicaps. Most are homeless. Many are in foster care.
Almost all of his kids live below poverty. But with those seeds, from day one, they are growing in his classroom, and his classroom is a tower garden. And you see how attentive these kids are to these seeds. And then you notice that those seeds become farms across the Bronx that look like this:
Green Bronx Machine builds healthy, equitable, and resilient communities through inspired education, local food systems, and 21st Century workforce development. Dedicated to cultivating minds and harvesting hope, our school-based model using urban agriculture aligned to key school performance indicators grows healthy students and healthy schools to transform communities that are fragmented and marginalized into neighborhoods that are inclusive and thriving.
At Green Bronx Machine, they believe that healthy students help drive healthy schools, and that healthy schools are at the heart of healthy communities. They envision growing healthy communities where those who are “apart from” will become “part of” new solutions that benefit 100% of society; a world where people do not have to leave their community to live, learn and earn in a better one. Together, we can grow something greater! Ready, set, GROW!
Please support Green Bronx Machine by Liking them on Facebook and checking out their Go Fund Me page!
Where can you learn more?
Visit Stephen and the Green Bronx Machine at:
Website: http://greenbronxmachine.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/green.BX.machine
Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenBXmachine
Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/GreenBronxMachine
A pivotal book for Stephen: Americans Who Tell the Truth
Stephen is an amazing speaker and has been featured on TED Talks! Here’s my personal favorite: