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Every day, thousands of Wisconsin children line up for breakfast and lunch at school. School meals are a significant part of their daily food consumption -- and for many children, they may be the day's only source of nutritious food. Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch believes that our school children, regardless of income level, should have access to Wisconsin's highest quality agricultural products. Wisconsin Homegrown
Lunch is a grassroots program whose goal is to enhance Wisconsin
schools' existing meal programs by introducing fresh, nutritious,
local and
sustainably grown food to children. The
program, like similar "farm-to-school" programs around the country,
will provide an opportunity for children to reconnect with their
natural world, will strengthen links between the classroom and the
lunchroom, and will help establish a stable market for local farmers
and processors. Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch is excited to be a partner in the new statewide Farm-to-School AmeriCorps program! We welcome Allison Vincent, Andrea Klahn, Ione Machen and Melissa Kieffer to our team. Requests for Partner-site applications for the 2009-2010 school year AmeriCorps Farm to School Program can be found here. Click here to see video of L'Etoile Chef Tory Miller cooking with 7th graders at Sherman Middle School. Click here for Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch's report on our first three years of work in the Madison Metropolitan School District. |
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Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch