Alice Waters shows us what a tomato should look like
If you didn’t watch 60 minutes last week, we beg you to take 15 minutes to watch this captivating story on Alice Waters. Excuse us, but we must pause in reverence to our organic goddess…
Now, we simply can’t say enough about her, what she’s done, and what she’s trying to do. A self-confessed dreamer, she acknowledges that the way she cooks is a luxury (she doesn’t own a microwave and cooks eggs over an open fire in her kitchen!). But poison-free food should be accessible to everyone.
“I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that’s not elitist,” Waters argued.
Her overall message is that we cannot afford to eat poorly. The processed, pesticide-sprayed, hormone-injected food that we eat is making us sick. Okay, but how do we change that? Through education.
Her Edible Schoolyard has been our inspiration for My First Organics, and our quest is to make this a reality in every school and home in America. It’s our way of making organic produce accessible to everyone!
She closes the interview with her desire to see the White House plant a sustainable, organic garden.
“I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation,” Waters said.
The woman gets what she wants (a woman after my own heart). Check my previous post…
Enjoy watching Alice Waters on 60 minutes or check out the article and transcript.
Tags: 60 Minutes, Alice Waters, Edible Schoolyard
Alice Waters is a voice for many like minds, spreading the word about organic foods at the same time she is spreading the field, making the idea, and ideal, more inclusive, encouraging our new administration to particpate, all a perfect fit with bringing children in as growers of the best foods. All of you in a movement over a hundred years old, keep it up.
Thanks for spreading the word about “poison-free” food. Until I had my daughter, I didn’t really think about what I was putting into my body. Now that the information is out there, and the access to healthy, organic food is much improved, we should make sure that ALL families have access to a healthy way of life. Let’s make sure that the vegetable requirement in public school lunches isn’t fulfilled by a ketchup packet!
We were happy to see Michelle Obama digging in the dirt, prepping for the first White House garden in years!
Thanks for your Ecofare articles- it’s great to get a diverse flow of info in one spot- no more chasing down info in a gazillion places on the web, or combing through blogs that talk more about someone’s opinion than what we can all contribute to a global garden! Alice Waters is a tremendous inspiration to all of us who see toxic-free food as a basic, humanistic right rather than a privilege for those who can afford it. It is gratifying to see the White House’s interest in placing emphasis on “mind the food, mind the earth”- another great example of walking the talk! Getting children to grow food is a fantastic way to make healthy eating part of the ‘plant-grow-eat’ cycle they can pass on to their next generation. ‘My First Organics’ gives everyone (not just children!) a chance to see that, given the right ingredients, growing food can be a positive, life changing experience….and a yummy one at that!! Thank you, thank you!
Eat organic not only because it’s toxic free, i.e. of herbicides & pesticides but also because it’s GMO (genetically modified organism) FREE!! This is the main reason we should all be eating organic only!