Talk about a cause near and dear to my little old heart! The Center for Ecoliteracy promotes ecological education in schools throughout California, teaching children that food (or at least whole, healthy foods) come from the earth. Children learn that the little belly button on an avocado means it grew on a tree. A TREE?! Yes darlings, the world is a wondrous, delicious place:)
I’ve had the opportunity to work with this wonderful group of passionate people on their California Thursdays project which is a collaboration to bring nutritious, freshly prepared meals featuring California-grown foods to California school lunches. My heart goes pitter-patter. I’ve always felt passionately about food education, and now that I have my only little California-grown wildling that will be attending school some day it has become an even dearer cause. Not to mention it’s always so dang fun to work with people who are as totally nutty about food as I am!!!
My job in this collaboration was to visually make simple, honest fruits and veggies as tantalizing and irresistible as possible. Pffffft, life is sometimes pretty great huh? Here are some of the fruits of that labor (hehe see what I did there? I know, good grief!). I hope they help the Center for Ecoliteracy ignite passion in the hearts and minds of California’s youth. Time to start tromping in the garden and watch the seeds of education sprout. It’s good to get muddy!
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