Sacramento resident Robert Lee Grant will screen his documentary Nourishing the Kids of Katrina Wednesday at the Shepard Garden & Arts Center in McKinley Park. The film focuses on Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard program in two New Orleans schools: Green Charter and Arthur Ashe Charter Schools. It will feature commentary from First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama regarding the installment of the White House's own organic garden and concerns about America's obesity epidemic. In ... sonia PrincessFifiTrixibelle comment-38724 2010-10-13T03:03:21Z 2010-10-13T03:03:21Z Contact Ms. Fatima Malik - she runs an organic public school garden in inner city Del Paso Heights. Luther Burbank High School - she is also connected to Anne Marie Kennedy's "GEO Academy" at the same school - it is a youth leadership academy designed to prevent teen pregnancy - drug/alcohol use and drop-out prevention, gang prevention program. The teens from one of the poorest neighborhoods in Sac wind up graduating with a high school diploma and transfer on full ride scholarships to First Tier universities - or good blue collar high tech trade schools. Ms. Fatima Malik teaches nutrition and wellness studies at Luther Burbank High School - Bill Maynard of the sacto community garden project was a graduate of that H.S. - he helps them with their organic school garden project. Fatima is an employee of Health Education Council in West Sacramento - which helps fund in part this phenomenal program. colleen whalen PrincessFifiTrixibelle 2010-10-13T03:03:21Z Tina Armour comment-11634 2009-08-06T21:09:52Z 2009-08-06T21:09:52Z How many schools in Sacramento have edible schoolyards? Tina Armour 2009-08-06T21:09:52Z Denise1 comment-11464 2009-08-03T03:31:56Z 2009-08-03T03:31:56Z It's a great film, inspiring and empowering, and it's important that all kids, teachers, parents, and administrators see it across America. What phenomenally positive and profound changes in kids' awareness about food and Nature, in kids' skills and knowledge, and in kids' health and enthusiasm we will see as each school begin to implement the "edible schoolyard" concept. Denise1 2009-08-03T03:31:56Z Hawa Arsala comment-11217 2009-07-28T18:25:04Z 2009-07-28T18:25:04Z I am quite familiar with the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley and the amazing philosophy guiding students to learn about gardening and their consumption habits. I didn't know that there were two of these in New Orleans, that's great! Hawa Arsala 2009-07-28T18:25:04Z Sonia Lucyga comment-11211 2009-07-28T02:37:34Z 2009-07-28T02:37:34Z Photos credit to ESY NOLA's website: http://www.esynola.org/ Sonia Lucyga 2009-07-28T02:37:34Z