Fruit and Veggie Links

Just beginning to research veggie links that might be useful for classrooms/educators. Here are a few. Feel free to suggest more

Growing Chefs
Food Education from Field to Farm
Founded by Annie Novak, co-founder of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm. Offers gardening, workshops, consulting, education. Based in NYC.
http://growingchefs.org/

Children plant vegetables at the White House

http://kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/kidsnews/2011/03/children-plant-vegetables-at-the-white-house.html

The following site has quite a lot of downloadable veggie activities.  It is produced by Produce for Better Health Foundation, an industry organization that is supported by large companies in the produce and food business. It also has information on healthier vending machine options, such as fruit.
http://www.pbhfoundation.org/educators/teachers/activities/packweek/PACK_materials.php

General Articles
"Getting Your Kids to Eat Healthy Foods" by Linda Larson



http://busycooks.about.com/od/healthyrecipes/a/kidsnutrition.htm



Cool layouts for vegetable gardens



http://www.squidoo.com/VegetableGardenLayout





Articles about research:



Eating vegetables, fruits as children linked to healthier arteries as adults.



http://www.newsroom.heart.org/index.php?s=43&item=1208

Increasing children's acceptance of vegetables; a randomized trial of parent-led exposure.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12781165

Children's Vegetable Intake LInked to Popeye Cartoons.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100806080218.htm

Children ate twice as many veggies if they were given a funny name.

* Okay, personally, I think you don't need to change the name, just have fun with real names, a la Rah, Rah, Radishes. But that's just my nonfiction take on things…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29468137/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/t/making-veggies-cool-kids/