Schools around the nation are changing the way they feed kids -- for the better. Common Roots educator and farmer Molly Silver and The Farm at South Village will once again be growing food this summer to benefit local schools. Working with interns from the South Burlington High School and UVM, this summer/fall program grows, processes, and stores food to be be used in local school cafeterias for the next school year. Income from this program supports the salaries of the Common Roots food educators.
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Posted by Joyce Hendley on 2012-01-06
In recent years, many parents, health advocates, and doctors have targeted school lunch as one of the aspects of our food system most in need of scrutiny and reform. Since then, many of us have come to see bland, processed-food-heavy cafeteria cuisine less as a necessary evil and more as evidence of the way in which our government's love affair with Big Ag takes a toll on public health. Not that revamping school lunch has proven easy: Public school districts struggle with extremely limited budgets, and the byzantine logistics of preparing and distributing food for thousands of children are especially tough to change.
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In recent years, many parents, health advocates, and doctors have targeted school lunch as one of the aspects of our food system most in need of scrutiny and reform. Since then, many of us have come to see bland, processed-food-heavy cafeteria cuisine less as a necessary evil and more as evidence of the way in which our government's love affair with Big Ag takes a toll on public health. Not that revamping school lunch has proven easy: Public school districts struggle with extremely limited budgets, and the byzantine logistics of preparing and distributing food for thousands of children are especially tough to change.
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