"Roof farms"

Topic of my research paper is "Roof farms - food, politics aspect and me." For my project I've looked at a few sources: The New York Times wrote about spreading the idea of roof gardening around the country. And here I found some political aspects directly from our president Obama and some local. There is also very substantial, environmental aspect of green roofs. Here I present almost personal benefits from my neighborhood where I live and go to the restaurant very often:

How to improve the food and food education at a school.

Dear Principal,

I am the parent of one of your 5th grade students, and I am writing to you out of concern for the promotion of healthy food in our school. Nowadays, there is wide access to fast food and more and more children are developing obesity. School is one of the places, where our kids spend most of their time, so they are doomed to it this food. This is why I do strongly support the idea of introduction of healthy food into our school and promoting healthy behavior.

I would like to suggest some ideas of how to improve the food and food education at the school. To begin with, I would remove all vending machines from the school with sugar-sweetened beverages and other unhealthy stuff. Then I would start to sell fresh snacks and water. I can imagine it is going to be very hard accepting these changes but I know it can be done step by step. In this way we are going to adjust our kids' way of thinking about their health.

Secondly, I will introduce some classes, which help to teach young people how their bodies work and why appropriate eating habits are so important. We can hear about the consequences of smoking or drinking alcohol on TV, but nobody talks about the effects of eating harmful food. Especially here in America where there is no food culture we are supposed to be very careful of what we eat.

Another important aspect of how to improve the food and food education in our school is creating a garden, where students can cultivate respect for hard work and real food. They can learn how to grow vegetables in a small environments, so they can use that skill in their own place in the future. Also we can promote physical activity through working outside. Additionally, we can take advantage of local agribusiness and sell these products in the school coffee shop.

I would also provide a cooking class, so the students can get experience with making healthy organic food. After this class they will be able to make a conscious decision about what kind of food they will buy.

So based on all the above mentioned points, I would like to underline once again, that our children's health should be the most important thing in our everyday lives. So I truly believe that my ideas would bring you a fresh point of view on such a valuable issue. Proper education of our kids will give us a new and better generation of people with the right food culture and knowledge, which can improve quality of life.

If I can be of any assistance with this serious educational subject please let me know. You can contact me at (lucylew.blogspot.com)



Sincerely

A parent

Lucyna

Blueberry Dumplings Recipe

Hi. My name is Lucyna "dumplings" and I'd like to share one of my best polish dish recipe with you.

Here is a recipe:

Ingredients:

1 1/2cups all purpose flour
1/2 tablespoon butter
pinch salt
1/3 cup hot boiling water

2 1/2 cups fresh blueberry
sugar and fresh cream for serving

Directions:

Pour flour, butter, salt and hot water into a bowl
and form dough. Take 1/2 of dough, roll out and cut
into 2 inch circles. Fill up with fresh blueberries and seal
tightly by forming half a circles.
Drop dumplings into hot boiling water and cook for 10min.
Serve warm with fresh cream and sugar.

Enjoy your dumplings.

Truth about the food.

Honestly, I've never thought a food industry can be such a big problem in America. I grew up in a small town in Europe so there was no genetic modified food, farmers didn't use fertilizers, everything was organic. When I came to America everything tasted to me different especially when I bought food in a supermarket. It was new experience for me so I tried to find out where does this food come from, who did it, and what does it contain. Then I realized that the best sources of food are small local stores where we can find homemade products without the preservatives. Movie "Food Inc" is confirmation of my thesis. Producers of the movie do a good job touching aspect of food industry. They are pointing out of what farming means today in America. Money is the only reason for doing it. Nobody cares about quality and even more about people's health. Although I'm surprised there is a law in few states of U.S. which protects food manufactures from people who try to find out the true about their products. In Europe there is an opposite situation. The law protects people against the harmful food manufactures. And also there is a law, which protects animals against bad-treatment, what was presented in the movie.
After I watched this movie I'm really frightened about what I eat and what I drink. They said the only 10% of the items come from agro-farms in U.S. and the rest of them contain corn and soybeans products, which are genetic modified. And one more thing, which is the same, terrified there are no rules, which require food manufacture to put label on the products.
I'm really glad I could watch this movie. I'm going to recommend watching it to my family and friends. I think it was worthwhile.