Farm to school can connect all students to healthy, local food: Many of our nation’s children eat two of their meals at school every day, so what better place to level the playing field on access to good food? Our Policy Associate, Natalie Talis, explained to the audience of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization workshop how the Farm to School Act of 2015 will expand and improve the popular USDA Farm to School Grant Program to reach more schools nationwide.
Creative community collaboration can bring food change from the classroom out into the streets, and even to the steps of City Hall. The event brings the wider Oxford community together to celebrate the connections between the farm and their forks. Their annual Gospel Choir Showcase in front of Oxford City Hall features local gospel music, dancing, healthy food samples and farm to school presentations from students and staff.
Farm to school builds a spirit of inclusivity: Food is a bridge between people, communities and cultures – everybody eats! As a panelist at Just Food, Sunny Young, our Mississippi State Lead, shared how Good Food for Oxford Schools has partnered with other local organizations and churches to make healthy food a community affair.
By teaching kids about where food comes from – who grows food, how it is harvested, how to prepare delicious meals – farm to school is cultivating conversations about just food among our nation’s youngest eaters. In classrooms, school gardens and cafeterias, more than 23.5 million students are engaged in farm to school across the country. Farm to school is working today to help educate the next generation of food advocates. Molly Anderson reminded listeners in her keynote address, the road to food justice is long, and will require years of activism.
Farm to school educates the next generation of conscious eaters: As Dr.
So, what’s the role of the farm to school movement in helping create a more just food system? Indeed, food is everyone’s issue, because everyone eats! Therefore, everyone has a hand in cultivating food justice. This multidimensional understanding of food justice requires that a plurality of voices be included in creating our vision of a just food system. Food justice is interconnected with many other social justice causes, including farmworkers rights, racial justice and the environment.
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