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Image from WYMT Mountain NewsPerry County students are learning about nutrition through the Farm to School program, which aims to inform students about healthy food while supporting local food systems, Callie Rainey reports for WYMT-TV in Hazard. "We...
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- Lexington Preschool Becomes Kentucky's First With A Farm-to-school Food Program
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- Students In Kentucky Are Invited To Celebrate Farm To School Week In Annual Farm To School Art Contest
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- Agriculture Commissioner Visits Six Counties To Promote Local Food, Better Nutrition In School Lunches
State Sen. David Givens, R-Greensburg, watches as Commissioner James Comer speaks at Green County High School.(Greensburg Record-Herald)To encourage child nutrition and healthier school lunches, state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer visited six Kentucky...
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Comer encourages Kentucky schools to serve fresh local foods on 'Farm Fresh Fridays'
State Agriculture Commissioner James Comer wants Kentucky schools to offer fresh, local foods for students on Farm Fresh Fridays. The program will launch with Farm to School Month in October, according to a Department of Agriculture press release.
School food-service directors have been asked to provide at least one Kentucky Proud fruit or vegetable each month. Students will be encouraged to talk about their Farm Fresh Fridays activities through social media, and hopefully will learn about local food through the program.
"Serving fresh local foods to our school children will provide them the nourishment they need to grow up strong and healthy," Comer said. "It also will provide educators a way to teach them about where their foods comes from. At the same time, buying farm-fresh foods helps local farmers make a living."
During the 2011-2012 school year, the Farm to School Program distributed local foods in about 702 schools to approximately 364,000 children. To read more about the program, go to www.kyagr.com or contact Tina Garland at 502-382-7505.
School food-service directors have been asked to provide at least one Kentucky Proud fruit or vegetable each month. Students will be encouraged to talk about their Farm Fresh Fridays activities through social media, and hopefully will learn about local food through the program.
"Serving fresh local foods to our school children will provide them the nourishment they need to grow up strong and healthy," Comer said. "It also will provide educators a way to teach them about where their foods comes from. At the same time, buying farm-fresh foods helps local farmers make a living."
During the 2011-2012 school year, the Farm to School Program distributed local foods in about 702 schools to approximately 364,000 children. To read more about the program, go to www.kyagr.com or contact Tina Garland at 502-382-7505.
- Farm To School Program Teaches Perry County Students How To Eat Healthier, Explores Local Food As An Industry In Eastern Ky.
Image from WYMT Mountain NewsPerry County students are learning about nutrition through the Farm to School program, which aims to inform students about healthy food while supporting local food systems, Callie Rainey reports for WYMT-TV in Hazard. "We...
- Kentucky Is One Of Three States To Get Walmart Foundation Money To Expand Farm-to-school Programs
Kentucky will use money from The Walmart Foundation to partner with the National Farm to School Network to expand efforts to get more local foods into schools. A project called Seed Change will ?jump start? programs that get local...
- Lexington Preschool Becomes Kentucky's First With A Farm-to-school Food Program
About 20 years from now, today's preschoolers will be purchasing and preparing their own food. What if they spent 13 years in an educational setting that taught farm-to-school practices? Children who represent the next generation would learn not only...
- Students In Kentucky Are Invited To Celebrate Farm To School Week In Annual Farm To School Art Contest
Kentucky students are invited to participate in the third annual Farm to School Art Contest, which celebrates Farm to School Week. Entries must be drawn on 8 1/2-by-11-inch white unlined paper and have the theme "Farm to School Lunch ... Across Kentucky"...
- Agriculture Commissioner Visits Six Counties To Promote Local Food, Better Nutrition In School Lunches
State Sen. David Givens, R-Greensburg, watches as Commissioner James Comer speaks at Green County High School.(Greensburg Record-Herald)To encourage child nutrition and healthier school lunches, state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer visited six Kentucky...