Stephen Ritz and the Green Bronx Machine || Revolutionizing food and education

Stephen Ritz and the Green Bronx Machine || Revolutionizing food and education

Healthy Food for healthy minds : how "organic grown students" can change the future of marginalized communities

Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx educator who believes that students shouldn’t have to leave their community to live, learn, and earn in a better one. 

Green Bronx Machine is a school-based model using urban agriculture aligned to key school performance indicators, to grow healthy students and healthy schools and to transform communities that are fragmented and marginalized into neighborhoods that are inclusive and thriving.

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S-Bread the word! || Forno Strìa brings back the flavor of sourdough bread and ancient grains

S-Bread the word! || Forno Strìa brings back the flavor of sourdough bread and ancient grains

Revolutions (always) start with bread

Industrial production destroyed both the taste and the nutritional value of wheat. Forno Strìa in Reggio Emilia revamps the traditional way of making bread using sourdough and ancient grain flour, with young energies, enthusiasm and tasteful innovation as a plus.

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A New Agora for food distribution || Terroirs d’Avenir

A New Agora for food distribution || Terroirs d’Avenir

Terroirs d'Avenir rebuilds the relationship between peasants, small producers, chefs and communities.

Terroirs d'Avenir creates alternate avenues for food distribution in Paris by helping small producers bypass the usual intermediaries to create a direct model that guarantees a fair price to everyone in the food system, from growers, to chefs, to citizens.

 

 

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