Posted on Jun 24, 2022
Kansas City-area farmers are providing more students with fresh local produce for lunch
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The KC Food Hub is seeing an uptick in schools buying from them after districts faced supply chain disruptions during the pandemic.
Tomatoes and lettuce line the fields at Mike Pearl’s farm on a windy day in Parkville, Missouri. Now he has plans to plant even more.
“We're gonna have a lot of the usual suspects, if you will: the watermelon, cantaloupe later this season. You know, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes,” Pearl said.
Despite the wind, he said, this year's crops are off to a good start, and they’re for some very special customers: local students. Pearl said he’s excited about these customers since he never grew up eating produce like this for lunch.
“I’m not gonna tell you how old I am, but I can't imagine in my school cafeteria eating quinoa, or, I don't know, fresh kale greens,” Pearl said.
Tomatoes and lettuce line the fields at Mike Pearl’s farm on a windy day in Parkville, Missouri. Now he has plans to plant even more.
“We're gonna have a lot of the usual suspects, if you will: the watermelon, cantaloupe later this season. You know, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes,” Pearl said.
Despite the wind, he said, this year's crops are off to a good start, and they’re for some very special customers: local students. Pearl said he’s excited about these customers since he never grew up eating produce like this for lunch.
“I’m not gonna tell you how old I am, but I can't imagine in my school cafeteria eating quinoa, or, I don't know, fresh kale greens,” Pearl said.
Kansas City-area farmers are providing more students with fresh local produce for lunch
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Just had a text to my wife from a friend of hers in California and she says if you want lettuce in your sandwich, you have to pay extra. Really?
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Holtville, Alabama: A Rural Community - 1945 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage
A look at the Holtville and its community. .CharlieDeanArchives - Archive footage from the 20th century making history come alive!
I believe that is the way it should have always been. Schools are supposed to be pillars of the local community. The should invest in the local and regional farmers and ranchers. This video demonstrates these principles in a high school in 1945. This was a prototype school that seemed to have been very effective. Yes it rural America, but there should be little difficulty to implement this in urban communities. It would help to foster more urban farming, which we are in desperate need of. The DOD school on NAS New Orleans, JRB operates and teaches urban and sustainable farming/gardening practices. They recently built a pavilion next to the patch to facilitate outdoor classroom. A caveat here would be the reversal of the dangerous trend of sending our food production out of the Country to Mexico and Canada. I mean, a Texan can't get any dang green onions that ain't from Mexico. They are bland as heck, put Farmers out of a livelihood and that just ain't right.
Holtville, Alabama: A Rural Community - 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNvxpapGolg
Holtville, Alabama: A Rural Community - 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNvxpapGolg
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