Cooking Up a Story: Food News
From our first live broadcast:
If you’re not familiar with the farm to school movement, it’s all about getting fresh, clean, good
food to our kids in school and help create new markets for local farmers. It started as a grassroots movement and has spread across the country. Get in on the conversation with Deb Eschmeyer of the National Farm to School Network, and hear just how far our food system has strayed. Two surprise nuggets (no, not chicken nuggets): a school age child that tastes watermelon for the first time, and knows that flavor only from the bubble gum he chews; the senate in Washington, that has their own organic kitchen with access to fresh, and locally grown foods, but not a single public school in Washington D.C that has an operating kitchen. This is a call to arms, and a call for change in direction, to help our kids grow into healthy adults. If we are to place country first, let’s think first about promoting the welfare of all children.
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So glad to see this growing. I’m currently educating myself/gathering info toward this very effort for the school system my kiddies are in. What a shame that, as much money as is poured in to so many “beneficial” programs for our children, there is very little support/influence toward this.
Thanks for sharing this.
C.