Farm to School program plants seeds of healthy eating in kids

by Lisa Rathke
url: http://www.culturalsignificance.com/article/Farm%20to%20School%20program%20...
Published: Tue, Feb 16th, 2010
The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritional value of the carrots, onions and cabbage because they've studied them in class, and they know how they're grown because they've nurtured them in raised beds out back.