9-7 IAN School Lunches

 The Boise School District is kicking off a Farm-to-School Program in September. Farm-to-School is a broad term that is used to describe efforts to connect healthy local food and agriculture with schools and students.  Its goal is to support healthy children, healthy schools, healthy farms and healthy communities.  In Idaho, five school districts have been selected by the Idaho State Department of Agriculture and Idaho State Department of Education to serve as pilot schools to implement Farm to School programs and help create best practices for other schools to follow who want to begin Farm to School efforts. Here’s ISDA spokesperson for the project, Leah Clark: “We’re gonna kick it off with the Boise district and their goal is to provide an Idaho food producy every day in every school and that reaches 25,000  students

The program will continue throughout the rest of the year, with a goal of providing students with at least one local food item per week. Every elementary school in the Boise School District offers access to a Healthful Choice Bar, where students can help themselves to a variety of vegetables, fruits and grain products.