The Co-Op BlogWho Will Cook Our School Food?
June 28th, 2010 by Annie
For the past few months I’ve been thinking a lot about how our Ashland School District is going to reclaim and run its own food service program, after using Sodexo for the past few years. The Co-op has always been interested in having healthy school lunches. Mary Shaw from Outreach has been on committees to improve our school lunches and was in on the discussions to take back our District’s program. Now we have a valley-wide organization to help connect farmers with schools…Rogue Valley Farm to School. At our Annual Meeting on June 26th, we heard a bit about this organization, and also that the Co-op and the Lions Club were going to make a nice donation toward their work for our school children. After the years of corporate run school lunches, who is going to now actually prepare and cook the food that will be served to students? I don’t know the answer to this question but apparently many school districts are asking the same question. And First Lady Michelle Obama is also wondering about this. When I found the article that I’m linking to you here, I thought about this question even more. Read the article and then share your thoughts on our Facebook page or in the comments on this blog. Happy reading….and thinking.
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