Stanford Community Writing Project articles

Jordan Garcia of the Stanford Community Writing Project explains the benefits of the garden based learning model, as employed by Collective Roots. Read his article here.

Revolution Foods is starting a (you guessed it!) revolution in the lunchroom at East Palo Alto Charter School by introducing healthy meal choices and educating students in the science of nutrition. Read more about this initiative here in an article by Stanford student Alexandra Ford.

Lucia Constantine of the Stanford Community Writing Project explains how the East Palo Alto community became a virtual “food desert” and offers solutions here.

Right now, there’s a lot of “buzz” about pollinator-friendly gardens so we’ve built one at EPACS. Pollinators provide 1/3 of all the food we eat and are threatened world-wide by the misuse of pesticides. The same bees that produce our honey are also needed to produce 90% of all flowering plants. To read an article by Stanford student Erica Swanson about the importance of pollinators, click here.