Ep. 14 - A Conversation with Author and Professor Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
Addressing food insecurity in schools was actually one of my main focuses as a first year teacher many years ago as an environmental educator. I was overly enthusiastic and naive about the promise of schoolyard vegetable gardens solving all food insecurity among the 10+ million children living in hunger in the US. Years later it is still a focus of mine but I have learned so much along the way.
This conversation with author and professor Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower helped shed much more light onto the school lunch situation here in the US. I find it to be especially relevant with over 30 states cutting food stamp benefits, federal aid ending for free school lunches for all, and then in the other direction states making free lunches for all students no matter their income. There is a lot of food news in the cycle as of lately and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower helps pull back the curtain on much of it. We hope you enjoy!
Where to find Marcus online:
His new book "Unpacking School Lunch"
