“Chloe Buchanan isn’t scared of worms. She knows they’re good for the soil. Earlier this month, she dug into a garden bed with bare hands to plant cabbage with the rest of their third-grade class at Lawndale Elementary.”

Cecily Upton, FoodCorps’ Co-Founder, Senior Vice President, and Chief Strategist, is quoted in this article on the challenges of running school food like a business.

The New Jersey Department of Agriculture visited Texas Avenue School in Atlantic City to highlight a FoodCorps-led, school-wide cafeteria taste test during the 8th annual Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week, Sept. 24-28.