A growing thank you

A tree might grow in Brooklyn  but it's a garden grows in Harlem.
Well that is the theme of Edible Schoolyards Spring Event and the highlight of all that growth?  Honoring Jake.

After all the ways Jake has helped promote Edible Schoolyards

He's talked about it
 
Planted for it
 
Shook on it
 
Hosted events

Rapped about it?
 
Slung pizza for it

and even bobbed for it 
 

And been thanked for it
 

Edible Schoolyards NYC is doing something even more.  They are making Jake the man of the hour.

 A reception and dinner on April 15th, falling between Jake  filming Prisoners and Mississippi Grind, culinary star David Chang will be one of the chairs for the event. No doubt there will be plenty of great food and for a great cause.
Will there be Kale?  That's the question.

So Jake grab that white shirt and tan pants, Spring's 'a comin' and the kale's a callin'

Seriously it is nice to see Jake honored again for something he is so invested in and passionate about. 

See and Say

Jake was honored for his work with New Eyes for the Needy last night at New Eye's 80th Anniversary dinner which held at Colicchio & Sons in New York, after having to be postponed due to Hurricane Sandy.

While his head might have looked a little wild and wooly,  he was the refined gentleman in an impeccably tailored wool suit shoulders downs. 

But all the wild didn't hinder him from breaking out the grins. 

Jake hasn't gotten to Wolfie stage yet.

 Just four more weeks and a trim and the beard can go... or at very least be trimmed and tamed.

After he was honored  Jake "talked at length to the small room – and he didn't even have to give a speech! – he shared some personal stories from childhood." (source)

Jake shared how he got involved with the organization as a kid because his grandpa, a doctor, made him donate his eyeglasses every time his prescription changed.

He said that while "all his friends were trying to save the seals, he maintained 'If you can't see the seals, how can you help them?'

And Jake's date for the night? Mom.