Meet Ken Sparks | Farmer & Owner of The Farmer Ken

Positives

• This is a nice example of someone following their passion and making a living doing what they love.
• It highlights the need for more community gardens, local food, and support for fresh and healthy food options in underserved communities.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• It might be helpful for students to learn about food deserts, which are areas that lack healthy food options and grocery stores.
  

Differentiation

• Social studies and biology classes could discuss the connections or correlations between a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables and levels of health conditions such as diabetes or heart disease in various communities.
• Cross-curricular connections could be made with economics and civics classes by discussing payments and subsidies in the Farm Bill that could be redirected to smaller-scale farmers that produce healthy food for people.
• Other similar resources are this Garden Lesson Plan and How to Analyze Sustainability Problems: Food Deserts.