GREEN SPACE: Program links local food to local schools

Courtesy metromode - Job News  Tue, 11/18/2008 - 18:00

As more and more people embrace the locavore movement, it makes sense to introduce it to a young and impressionable audience -- especially when they are captive.

I'm not talking jailbirds here, but schoolkids.

Which is why the news that the Food System Economic Partnership in Southeast Michigan will receive $40,000 to support the expansion of its Farm to Schools lunch program from the Kellogg Foundation is such great news.

Last year was the pilot program for Farm to...

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