In the middle of a community still reeling from the closure of Treadwell High School, Dan DeShon and his middle school students took what he calls a “barren wasteland of grass and weeds” and transformed it into an entrance garden where chrysanthemums, azaleas and daffodils flower.
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Kimbal Musk was 25 when he and his brother Elon (perhaps you’ve heard of him?) sold their first tech company, called Zip2, for around $300 million. Elon poured some of his money into his next venture, which later became PayPal. Kimbal invested, but left Silicon Valley for culinary school, and later started opening a series of highly regarded restaurants in Colorado. Now he’s on a mission to help America eat healthier, more sustainable food.
“My goal is to go community by community and help improve the food culture, and get it to a place where we have a healthier society,” Musk says.
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In September, children at Resurrection Catholic School harvested sweet potatoes out of the garden they had been studying all year. They knew about soil content and the lifecycle of a seed, and they knew that there was something special about these sweet potatoes.
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In 1999, brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk sold their online publishing venture to Compaq Computer for more than $300 million. A big chunk of the proceeds went to other investors who held a stake in the startup, Zip2, but the Musks — in their mid-20s at the time — walked away with enough cash for Elon to launch a business that later became the online money transfer system PayPal.
Younger brother Kimbal invested in PayPal but didn’t get involved in its operations. Instead, he went to cooking school.
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In 1999, at the tender age of 27, Kimbal Musk sold an internet company for $307 million. Since then, through companies like PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX, he has been instrumental in shaping the way we think about tech. Now he wants to help Americans transition off of highly processed, industrial food, and he’s making his next big move here in Memphis.
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Elon is not the only Musk trying to change the world. So is his younger brother Kimbal.
“I think food right now, it feels like 1995 in the Internet days. The amount of innovation and excitement and enthusiasm is unbridled,” Kimbal Musk said in an exclusive interview with CNNMoney.
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Kimbal Musk was being careful on the day he almost died. It was February 14, 2010. He had arrived in Jackson Hole straight from the TED conference in Long Beach to spend time with his family on a ski weekend. TED had inspired him: the prize winner that year was chef Jamie Oliver, who spoke about Musk’s own great passion, empowering people by introducing them to healthier food.
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IN WASHINGTON, DC, Rahm Emanuel had such a tough-guy reputation that people called him “Rahmbo”. Now the former White House enforcer, who has been mayor of Chicago since 2011, faces a challenge as hard as any he met in the nation’s capital.
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What happens when you outfit over 100 schools with 500-3,000 square foot outdoor gardening classrooms? Spontaneous gardening and a lifelong love of growing, hopes one nonprofit.
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AVENAL — Students in Avenal and Kettleman City will get a chance to get some extra hands-on learning experience next school year.
Paramount Farms is paying $90,000 for the creation of three year-round learning gardens to be located at Avenal High School, Reef-Sunset Middle School and Kettleman City Elementary School.Through the gardens, students will be able to plant vegetables, learn how to grow crops, monitor growth and do special school projects.
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