| Eleven ND Communities Considered for Farm to School |
| 9/14/2009 |
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| North Dakota`s agriculture commissioner says 11 communities will considered for a program to bring food from area farms to school lunches. Commissioner Doug Goehring said the Farm to School program teaches healthy eating habits while providing farmers with a direct market. He says Farm to School programs already are in 40 states. Goehring said surveys will be conducted next month in the communities of Bowdon, Dickinson, Fargo, Grand Forks, Grant County, Hazen, Jamestown, Mandan, Minot, Napoleon and Valley City to consider whether they can be part of the program. He says the surveys also will measure the growth of area food production. The program will teach healthy eating habits, and give local farmers a new market. "Locally grown programs are going to do nothing but help our industry and when I say our industry, agriculture, because it puts people back in touch with agriculture, how to produce food, how to care for it, how to manage and handle food, and put it on the table and realize how good it really tastes," says Goehring. |
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