All across the country, you can find school districts doing similar things, for similar reasons.
“There’s universal interest in this, and that’s why we’ve seen dramatic increases in sales, and why we think there’s still a lot of upside potential to this,” Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said in an interview.
Bachman, at DCCK, says that in her experience, buying local food doesn’t take more money, but it does take more time. “We’re not buying just from one vendor,” she says. “We work with 20 or 25 different farms.”
All across the country, you can find school districts doing similar things, for similar reasons.
“There’s universal interest in this, and that’s why we’ve seen dramatic increases in sales, and why we think there’s still a lot of upside potential to this,” Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said in an interview.
Bachman, at DCCK, says that in her experience, buying local food doesn’t take more money, but it does take more time. “We’re not buying just from one vendor,” she says. “We work with 20 or 25 different farms.”
Article Appeared @http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/20/450294392/as-schools-buy-more-local-food-kids-throw-less-food-in-the-trash