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Farm to Cafeteria
03/18/2009 at 10:00 a.m.
School lunch. Can you smell the chicken nuggets, sloppy joes, and ambrosia salad? What if school lunch was healthy, fresh, and local instead? Straight from the farms to your kids. The "Local Farms — Healthy Kids" bill passed the state legislature last year, but it's been hard to implement. Many schools don't even have kitchens. Today we'll check up on how the farm to school initiative is going in Washington State.
Plus, a conversation on the week's news in Canada from our Canadian correspondent, Vaughn Palmer.
Guest(s)
Vaughn Palmer is a political correspondent for the Vancouver Sun.
Tricia Sexton-Kovacs is the Farm to School program coordinator for the Washington state Department of Agriculture.
Clayton Burrows is the manager at 21 Acres Community Farm in Sammamish. He is also the director of growing Washington, and the farmer programs coordinator for the Washington State University Small Farms Program.
Lisa Johnson is director of child nutrition services at the Bremerton School District.
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- Vancouver Sun
- 'WA measure would encourage farm-to-school relationships,' The Seattle Times
- 'Many barriers keep fresh, organic food out of school lunches,' The Seattle Post–Intelligencer
- Farm to School.org
- 'Local Produce Gets More Prominent in the Lunch Line,' The Kitsap Sun
