Advocates for improved school nutrition hope the Healthy,
Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a bill cleared for a final vote by the
Senate this past Wednesday, might pave the way for lunch programs
across the country to replicate the success of a deliciously successful
pilot project in Berkeley, California.
The School Lunch
Initiative provides "delicious, healthy, freshly prepared meals using
seasonal ingredients from sustainable farms to all of Berkeley's public
school students." It grew from Uber-celebrity chef Alice Waters'
proposal to build a football field-sized garden at Martin Luther King
Jr. Middle School. Waters is an authority on the locavore movement,
which encourages the consumption of food that's produced within a
100-mile radius.
To read the full article, click here.
