Rachel Ray recently joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a Brooklyn school to talk to kids about cooking and eating healthier foods. This year, 25 New York City schools – including the one visited by Ray – have been growing their own fresh vegetables and herbs in school gardens.
The city program, with a goal of creating 50 school gardens by next year, is supported by Ray’s Yum-o! organization, plus government, private and community nonprofit funds ...
The New York effort is part of a national campaign against childhood obesity led by first lady Michelle Obama, who helped Washington school children create a White House garden. [Source: The Associated Press]
Ray stood with the school kids in front of their boxes of vegetables and herbs, and pledged her continuing support of the project “as long as I have a big mouth.”
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