Growing a Greener World Episode 808 - The Green Bronx Machine

Stephen Ritz will be the first to tell you he’s not a farmer. But while his days are spent mostly indoors and with no tractor in sight, he tends to perhaps the most important crop of all: hundreds of elementary school-aged students growing up in the poorest congressional district in America. It is, essentially, the worst soil possible for anything to thrive. But here, Stephen embeds himself- heart and soul- into their lives on a daily basis. Armed with the power of “real food” (that is, fresh fruits and vegetables) in building healthy minds and bodies, Stephen has committed his life’s work to teaching kids to grow it in a one-of-a-kind incredible learning environment that he created. In the process, the real-life application of doing it has transcended all levels of academics: reading, writing, math, science, and so much more.
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