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Hungry customers outside a food truck in Buffalo, NY

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With a splashy paint scheme designed by a local artist, the “Farm to School to You” food truck – developed with input from Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) – will visit sites throughout the city to bring free meals to families in need...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
Five middle schoolers sit at a cafeteria table eating lunch and cracking jokes

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Dave Walczak, operations manager of Eden Valley Growers, a farm cooperative founded in 1956, and Mike Wright, head grower for Amos Zittel & Sons, one of the co-op’s nine members, survey a crew of four farmhands. The workers are chopping stalks...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
three students and a chef in a school kitchen tasting recipes

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Since then the movement has grown exponentially, now with more than 42% of schools nationwide hosting some form of Farm to School programming, according to the USDA Farm to School Census. This number translates to 23.6 million students...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension