Learn About Getting Real Food in Schools
Help restore the right of all children access to good food in school. Slow Food North Jersey invites you on Monday, June 8, 7:00-8:30pm to Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 53 E Hanover Road, Morristown, NJ, to hear guest speaker Tegan Hagey, Program Manager, THE FOOD TRUST, learn more about the Child Nutrition Act Reauthorization and how you can make a difference. Light, healthy, and local refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by June 6.
[From the Slow Food Northern NJ invitation] Every four to five years and opportunity arises for all concerned with the health of our nations children to evaluate, defend, and improve federal Child Nutrition programs. Child Nutrition Act is the federal policy that allocates funds and regulations for all school feeding programs- this year the Child Nutrition Act is up for reauthorization.
In 2004, the National Farm to School Program was established as a section of CNA but no money was allocated in the end. The time is ripe to implement policies that include locally and regionally grown foods in national meal programs, and we need advocates to make this happen.
The National Farm to School Network works with schools, farmers, food services, children, parents, and communities, providing direct technical assistance to get farm to school programs off the ground. They represent millions of Americans supporting policy solutions:
- Restore the right of all children to access good food in school
- Educate and inform communities about healthy food and its impact on the wellbeing of children; and
- Connect farmers, school districts, food service companies, and great ideas to the food system delivering school lunch