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Greenhouse enables Alaskan school to go local year-round
Now she and the students of Thorne Bay School care for a greenhouse that supplies the school lunch program with regular greens for its salad bar; soon, they’ll supply the whole school district and nearby businesses with about 250 heads of lettuce a week.
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Getting it wrong
One day in May many years ago, I was one of a group of panelists talking about trends in non-commercial foodservice at the Foodservice Consultants Society International’s annual meeting in Chicago during the National Restaurant Show.
Although a number of school districts around the U.S. have abandoned new United States Department of Agriculture meal pattern nutritional guidelines because students have loudly rejected the notion of healthier food, Florida has led the way in successfully promoting the idea that better food leads to better performance in the classroom.