jake gyllenhaal: That’s very nice of you!
interviewer: Tell us about your involvement with the Edible Schoolyard.
jake gyllenhaal: I’ve been involved with them for a couple of years. I’m titled bởi Alice Waters, the ambassador of the school yard. I got involved because the bữa tối, bữa ăn tối bàn was always a place, since I was a young child, where we got to get together, and I actually got to know my family there thêm than any other place in the world. I grew up growing my own thực phẩm in our family garden. One of my best Những người bạn is a farmer. It’s been a primary focus of my life.
interviewer: We tình yêu food!
jake gyllenhaal: I didn’t realize that I grew up in the slow thực phẩm movement. I see children who didn’t know any of these things—that they can grow their own thực phẩm and learn about vegetables when they are at a primary level. It was everything to me, so I wanted to be involved. Since knowing about this organization, I’ve done everything I can.
interviewer: What’s your yêu thích vegetable?
Jake Gyllenhaal:I’d say right now, after an extensive tìm kiếm over the years and living the wonderful life that I’ve had so far, and after tasting many, many vegetables…cavolo nero. It’s like a really soft kale. bạn can eat it any form: cooked, raw…
interviewer: We trust anything bạn say. Let’s backtrack…How do bạn know a farmer?
Jake Gyllenhaal: I was raised in Los Angeles, but I spent my summers, since I was born, in Martha’s Vineyard. My best friend, since we were little kids, lives there, and he’s a farmer. His whole family farms. I know it might seem odd, but it’s what I tình yêu thêm than anything. Being in gardens have been some of the most wonderful times of my life. Washing rau diếp and watching things grow…you feel connected to the world. You’d be hard-pressed to find anything that connects bạn to the universe in the same way that planting a seed does.
interviewer: That’s so sweet! And now you’ve got a beard like a real farmer.
jake gyllenhaal: Seeds of growth!
