School districts across the country, and across Arizona, have been serving meals to students, even while those students haven’t been going to school because of the coronavirus pandemic. But recently, some Valley districts have had to scale back their efforts.
Even with that, though, a handful of area districts are keeping their promise to buy fresh carrots for their students. The program, called “Local Carrots” was originally intended to serve rainbow carrots to students at lunch, but has since switched to an emergency feeding project.
Ashley Schimke joined The Show to talk more about this. She works in the Arizona Department of Education's Health and Nutrition Services Unit, where she focuses on building farm to school programs across the state.
She started by sharing the role a farm-to-school type program plays in this effort.
