Celebrating Farm to School Programs

Celebrating Farm to School Programs

October is a spectacular month, with its warm days, cool nights, brilliant fall foliage, and bountiful harvests. It is also National Farm to School Month. Several school children from Arizona, California, Ohio and D.C. will have some pretty special October 2014 memories to share in later years, as they were invited this week to help First Lady Michelle Obama harvest the White House Kitchen Garden in celebration of Farm to School Month. Farm to school programs were started in an effort to bring locally grown foods directly to local schools, and have gone from only a handful of schools participating nationwide to thousands of schools having such programs today. Students fortunate enough to have farm to school programs are often able to enjoy field trips to local farms and ranches where they benefit from “outdoor classrooms” that introduce them to the world of agriculture; teaching them how important and vital agriculture is to each and every one of us.


 
Previous ReportHonoring Rural Women
Next ReportSlowing Agriculture Productivity Trend