Happy Pigs

As I was chatting at the drop off point with Farmer Girl Debbie who also happens to be my 'client' (I support them with Social Media services, Marketing insights, and lots of "rumor-around-the -brand") besides a very dear friend, a Farmer Girl customer arrived to pick up her groceries. I asked her if she had ordered some meat as well and she said: "No I am a vegetarian", I said me too! But not while I am eating...We all laughed and then my daughter said to her with a very serious face: "But then you need to make sure you eat enough protein!" The lady looked at me in amazement and confirmed with my 7 year old daughter she did her best to get enough protein. I showed her the very yummy looking bacon I had purchased and told her it was from a happy pig...

It became clear to me that teaching children about nutrition, where food comes from, how you grow certain foods and how you prepare them is such an important step towards a healthier population and a very urgent one as well. Watching the first episode of ABC's "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," shows us how a lack of knowledge passed on from one generation to the next got us to where we are now: one in three American children is overweight or obese. Many children and parents do no longer know the simple difference between a tomato and potato and lost their ability to cook a simple, healthy, and tasty meal from scratch!

Please watch Jamie, get involved, go see what they serve your child at school, visit a farmers market, and cook something new together with your children!

Sign Jamie's petition to save cooking skills and improve school food. I support Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. America's kids need better food at school and better health prospects. We need to keep cooking skills alive.

Jamie would like to take his petition to the White House after the TV series airs, to show The President and First Lady how many people across the country really care about this and ask for their support.

I care, hope you care too!

Closing Quote by Trista Scheuerlein of the Rappahannock Farm-to-Table Program: “Our best crop: students who care about agriculture and nutrition.”