Re: teaching our children, yes, but also learning from them

**"Susan Harris" h*@erols.com**

Roger, that's AMAZING STUFF there.  I'm passing it along on the Garden Rant 
today.  Susan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Doiron" <roger@kitchengardeners.org>
To: "'Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum'" 
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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:43 AM
Subject: [GWL] teaching our children, yes, but also learning from them


> My 14 year-old son tells me that if I'm serious about getting more people
> involved in gardening, it's time that I "got with the program" and 
> realized
> that the medium is the message.
>
> So, feeling my way, I've created and/or uploaded a few streaming videos 
> that
> might be of interest.
>
> Beauty Food: a sort of music video anthem I created for another way of
> eating.a home-grown, locally-grown way.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOQkBP5nioY
>
> Eat Real Food: This one-minute animated short co-produced by an
> award-winning youth animator and myself follows 8 year old Polly as she
> navigates her way past junk food temptations on her way to something truly
> satisfying.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMd53OOaah4
>
> Kitchen Gardeners Unite: KGI and Kitchen Garden Day were featured 
> yesterday
> on Maine TV.  Note that the reporter got one of the stats wrong: the 1%
> home-grown figure she mentions refers to the situation in the US, not the
> world, fortunately.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBXgMOsVJg
>
> While I don't see any of these videos offering any competition for the 
> more
> spectacular "diet coke and mentos" content that youtube specializes in,
> perhaps we can attract a few new people to gardening through them.
>
> Please view and share the ones that speak to you. If you feel moved to 
> write
> or blog about them, all the better. For bloggers, it's easy to embed the
> videos into a post.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>
> PS: Be sure to get out in your gardens (and bring a neighbor or two) this
> Sunday for Kitchen
> <http://www.kitchengardeners.org/2005/10/kitchen_garden.html>  Garden Day.
> I'll be out in mine, umbrella in hand.
>
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