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Farm-to-School: More than Sloppy Joes in South Carolina PDF Print E-mail
Written by Kiki Hubbard   
Wednesday, 27 February 2008


There's a new farm-to-school program in South Carolina – the first in the state – that illustrates the nationwide trend and the growing concern over the slop we're putting in our kids' mouths everyday, like the recently recalled beef.

Across the U.S., nearly 11,000 schools in 38 states have a farm-to-school program. These programs are connecting schools with local farms to improve student nutrition and support the local economies of area farmers.

South Carolina's Anderson County established the state's first farm-to-school program last week, which is taking farmers into new terrain and children back to the farm.

The "Grow With Me" program supplies the county's schools with fresh produce from local farms, everything from melons and strawberries to broccoli and sweet potatoes. For some farmers, this is their first foray into vegetable and fruit production. Yet they view the risk as minimal. After all, a school lunch program provides a steady market, and vegetables and fruits fetch a higher price than their commodity dairy milk, for example. And kids get to visit the farms where their food is produced, which might make lunchtime that much more interesting (outside the jello experiments).

I mean, when the National School Lunch Program spends 72 cents per kid on ingredients, how can food taste like it should?

Sources: IndependentMail.com and National Farm to School

 

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written by USexpat, February 28, 2008
Finally! This is great news and I am glad to hear it. Let's hope other schools jump on the bandwagon. Thanks for reporting the story!
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written by Terra Verde, February 28, 2008
This is an absolutely brilliant idea and I'm glad that the school is willing to spend a little more on children's health. You can have all the health classes, gym classes, and recess time you like, but if you're feeding those kids 72 cents worth of garbage, they're never going to learn proper nutrition and health.
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written by masinn, October 30, 2008
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ー携帯チャットレディー車買取京都きも
不動産出会い長崎ソープランド・・・
然オリゴ糖在宅仕事爪水虫出会い福岡出
会い大阪出会い青森出会い山口出会い北
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