A certain amount of that grown food from those gardens is given to the local food banks and home shelters. Interestingly, the community gardens realized they should consult the food bank coordinators and home shelter program coordinators on the type of grown food that people wanted.
People didn't want.. free white carrots, aramath leaves..and kale, Swiss chard is a hard sell even if offered free..unless the community garden program coordinator organized a workshop which included a chef, demonstrating how to cook these "exotic" veggies.
The next difficult stage to surmount..is getting local produce that the children helped grow in the community gardens..get it into their school cafeterias. Not just donate to the food bank. That's actually difficult right now because the local school board is a separate jursidiction from the city's food production program. Also the school board has pre-set contracts with outside suppliers of food.
Talk about bureaucracy..It would take agitation by parents, school trustees, etc. a whole persistent movement, to change this scene.
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06-03-2009, 08:47 PM #3
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