Whole Food, Whole Child, Whole Family

School Food has rightfully become a focus for so much of what we want to be different in the world. Beyond the clinical aspects which increasingly define alarming statistics related to obesity, early onset diabetes and other food related illness, there is an underlying cultural aspect that warrants even more attention.

This core cultural issue is directly linked to our human DNA and is critical to the human experience. When we reduce that experience to a passive act of consumption with no real connection to source, we are depriving ourselves of something that leads to the equivalent of emotional malnutrition. In my mind, this can't be healthy.

Experience Food Project has been deeply immersed in the issue of school food for over five years by providing leadership and implementation of some of the most cutting edge pilot projects to date. It is a very complex issue, although not so terribly complicated and is almost always defined by prevailing attitudes related to change.

Change is the operative word and real change is what will be required if we want to adopt a more wholistic approach. Our initiative called Whole Food, Whole Child, Whole Family is focused on the cultural experience that we gain by understanding where our food comes from, consciously choosing and preparing our food and the human experience gained when sharing our food with others.

In essence, this is really what we are asking for when we talk about school food. Who knows, maybe this will be the catalyst for change that could evolutionize other institutional anomalies.