Great video, terrific conversations. We are doing something similar in Australia called the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for 8-12 year olds.

to add to this most inspiring and beneficial program;

Every school needs a nature trail and every person-adult or young-
needs a bit of wilderness if wonder, reverence and awe are to be cultivated.- William O. Douglas, former Justice of the Supreme Court

I did community service at the cooking department at Willard Middle School in Berkeley last semester. Their program is almost identical to Martin Luther King's program (brain child of Alice Waters). I worked in the garden occasionally, must mostly cooked with six-grade student after their gardening class.

I saw first hand how excited students become when doing something outdoors and incorporating ecology, cooking, and working together. Teachers can make a student's day, if they allow their class to take a trip outside, work in a garden, play games outside, etc. Students get excited when they can break up their traditional day with something different especially when they get to move around or eat.

This video was very well done!

Great post! Would like to get more of this!

Stooped in prayer like reverence, head bowed with gracious and intent peace,

hands clasping new life unto soils cradle, this cultivating soul ponders the reaches of nature,

delves into her ingenuity, marvels at the wonderment of life’s tenacious dedication,

their quiet rapport professed in serene mannerism and temperament,

grant testimony of a profound attachment, weaving the fibers of creation and tradition

upon our terrestrial loom, the gardeners spirit constitutes the essence of our destiny...

Edible Schoolyard is a perfect model of alternative classroom in school or community garden as well. School garden program has just started in Japan recently, We must learn from ESY a lot. because Nature, always our teacher.