“It’s not our first time,” fifth-grader Garbie said. “We do this all the time.” The Washington Shores Elementary School student is one of a team of kids who expertly unloaded a pallet of produce and sorted all the fruits and vegetables into hundreds of bags. Every month, the school receives a shipment of fresh produce for its Fresh Market program, one of the Second … [Read more...] about A Fresh Take on Food Resources for Kids
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Increasing Access to Nutritious Foods
“We believe it’s so important for people to have access not just to food, but to nutritious food, and we find that almost everybody really wants it and enjoys it,” said Mark Thompson, co-founder of The Picnic Project in Sanford, a feeding partner of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, and one of the most recently certified nutritious pantries in a growing … [Read more...] about Increasing Access to Nutritious Foods
