Jake Gyllenhaal wants to change the world with Edible Schoolyard
Published: March 22, 2020
JAKE GYLLENHAAL, star of Prince of Persia and Donnie Darko is offering his celebrity status and love of all things natural to spearhead a new campaign aimed at encouraging American schools to grow their own fruit and vegetables in a bid to improve young people’s relationship with their food and to raise their awareness of the natural environment around them.
It is perhaps little known that Gyllenhaal is something of a wizard in the kitchen and his skills came about by growing up around home-grown food. He is now using his knowledge and love of food to help Edible Schoolyard on their crusade to bring a little more green thinking to the minds of the younger generations.
“We’re trying to make it possible to have an edible garden in every public school in America. Kids can have a new relationship to nature and to their food and to their diet and an understanding where their food comes from. Kids can take classes in these gardens and learn mathematics by counting vegetables and engage in the world in a different way than we’re used to in schools.
“It’s basically to take a piece of the concrete out and put in a garden where children can explore and learn and hopefully it changes them. I grew up around edible gardens all over the place in Los Angeles and a little bit outside of Boston, and it’s changed my perspective on the world and I think it could change the world.
“My family always emphasised it and it’s an incredibly economic way of feeding the family and having everybody learn where your food comes from. It’s something that I care deeply about. I remember my niece, when she was first born, and the great irony of her learning how to walk by holding onto tomato plants and how to count with cherry tomatoes. When a kid grows up that way and is involved with seeing something grow and seeing something die and seeing something be reused, it’s a different kind of upbringing.
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