Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

As I considered about Carolyne Steel's argument of current food system in my previous posting, Jamie Oliver also could be introduced as one of the important food urbanists. He also argues about current food problem in this video.

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. While I visit 'incredible edible's conference in Peckham, I have realised the huge importance of education for food. It is essential to children as well as adults. There for Jamie Oliver's activities of educating people for food is really powerful, meaningful and enjoyable.

TED Talk
February 2010

This video sourced from (http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/765)

Incredible Edible Todmorden London Conference Peckham

Incredible Edible Todmorden is a community group of local people, business, and schools in Todmorden. They are leading the way in response to the challenges of climate change through a commitment to the production of food by local people for local consumption. Their aim is to have the town self-sufficient in food by 2018.

The second Incredible Edible national conference held at John Donne School Peckham, on Saturday, October 9th. It was great time to have a exchange of ideas for sustainable positive living ways.

After a short welcome to the school, which is itself growing vegetables in the playground, and a brief history of the Peckham Experiment by Lisa Curtice. Interesting stuff done in the 1930's to see if what we would now call 'lifestyle' factors can influence health.

Professor Tim Lang in sober mood spoke about food security emphasising how much there is still to do, we have made a start.

The afternoon was dedicated to swapping ideas for moving Incredible Edible Todmorden and similar projects forward into the future as everyone broke into small groups to attend two workshops each.

There were four types of workshop topics. It was;
- Learning inside and outside the classroom Paul Clarke.
- Developing incredible building designs. James Darbyshire STACE partners.
- Communications: press, web, poster & word of mouth Alan McDonald
- Growing and the skills you need. Nick Green.

I was really glad to meet this active local community and to learn positive solutions for the better future.