What are some of the benefits of participating in the NH Farm to School Program?
• Exceptional Flavor and Freshness: Foods grown locally are fresher, and taste better than food shipped long distances. • Vibrant local agriculture: When you buy locally grown food, you help ensure that NH farms continue to thrive, helping to preserve NH’s open spaces and rural, working landscape. • Enhanced school curriculum: Local food connections create opportunities to incorporate food, nutrition and farming themes into curriculum, and explore experiential learning opportunities such as cooking, school gardening, and visits to local farms. • Long-term health & nutrition: The more a child is involved with food, through gardening, farming, cooking or other “real life” food experiences, the more likely he or she will adopt healthy eating behaviors as a life long practice.
