Will work for food? Try Food Corps

by Jane Black
url: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/all-we-can-eat/sustainable-food/will-work-...
Published: Mon, Jun 7th, 2010
The problems with school food are well-established. There’s not enough money, not enough manpower and often not enough know-how to produce fresher, more healthful food. Now, a group of good-food advocates has a plan: Establish a national Food Corps to help to do the heavy lifting. The team, led by the National Farm to School Network, has raised $215,000 in grants from the Kellogg Foundation and AmeriCorps to get its program off the ground. If successful, the Food Corps will take on volunteers starting in 2011 for one-year placements at schools across the country.