Most local activists will tell you they’re not out to save the world. Julie Holbrook and K’Cee Leavine will admit to no such thing. They see child nutrition in schools as a fundamental building block to human health and happiness, and a fundamental right of everyone taken under the wing of public education. To them, […]
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Better Quality Food is Key for Helping Students Thrive
By Tim Rowland Supporters of Farm to School had battled the conventional wisdom that food in its natural state was too costly and too hard to prepare. They’d won that fight, but now a larger one loomed: getting students to eat it. Too many came from homes where parents, working multiple jobs or otherwise spread […]
Local Food Saves Area Schools Money
By Tim Rowland If children can be particular when it comes to food, school administrators, out of necessity, can be just as fastidious when it comes to their annual budgets. And with finances and curricula understandably absorbing so much of their time and energy, it’s no wonder the cafeteria gets pushed to the back burner. […]
Schools Purchasing Local Food Helps Local Farmers
By Tim Rowland Those who study global hunger note that the world produces plenty of food, the problem rests with getting that food to people in need. Something similar has been happening in public schools. A new generation of North Country farmers was producing a breadth of healthy food, but at the same time, school […]
Farm to School Movement Gains Ground in the Adirondack Region
By Tim Rowland In the United States, school lunch programs began in 1933 as a piece of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda for combatting the Great Depression. Feeding kids was not necessarily the only goal. At the time the government was also concerned with finding work for the unemployed, and outlets for unsold crops. […]