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Cynthia Agee
Mar 1, 08 - 5:18 AM |
Partnership between small farms and schools
I am a teacher at a Title I school in Greenville, South Carolina. The lunches served to our students are unhealthy, full of starches, sugars, and fats. Our students are becoming more obese each year. Through my research online to find a federal grant or program for having healthy school lunches, the Virginia National Association of Black Farmers was stated as being instrumental in bringing the farmers to the schools. Could you please send me any information you may have on your part in this program of bringing Small Farmers to Urban Schools? I would also appreciate any information you may have on federal grants or programs that promote healthy lunches in poverty-stricken areas. Ninety-six percent of our students are on free and/or reduced lunches. The big meal of the day for many of them is the school lunch; and sadly, it is often very poor in nutrition, filled with starch, fat, and high glucose corn syrup which is used as a preservative in the freezing process. Most of the frozen vegetables served are covered in oil or a melted cheese/oil sauce. Our students need a program and farm partners to get this started. Thank you so much for your time. |
Justin Duncan
Apr 14th, 2008 - 6:32 AM |
Re: Partnership between small farms and schools
I am the Greenhouse Manager at Prairie View A&M University. We have a similar situation going on here. Some of our extension agents have partnered with the elementary school adjacent to our campus to create a garden which the children help maintain. Also I grow a fairly great deal of vegetables on our experiment station. The principal of the school and I are trying to work out the details of using some of the vegetables as healthy snacks for the children. As far as grants check on: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/funding.cfm or: http://www.southernsare.uga.edu/callpage.htm |
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