Tag: local food
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Teacher learns food literacy is more than teaching about healthy food; it’s also about geographic and socioeconomic challenges
Cooking Club, part of Fern Creek’s Food Literacy class (Photo by Joe Franzen) A “food literacy” class that began as a way to teach high-school students to eat healthier has turned...
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Visiting chef at Harlan County High helps incorporate fresh, local foods and flavors into menus; 1 of 8 Ky. districts in program
image: foodtank.com The “Chefs in Schools Collaborative” project, which helps school cooks learn how to incorporate fresh, local foods in their menus, is up and running at Harlan County High...
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Chefs to show how to get fresh, healthy, local food in Boyle, Clark, Grayson, Harlan, Martin, Morgan, Oldham, Pike county schools
image: nkyhealth.org Chefs will help eight Kentucky schools learn to incorporate fresh, local foods in their menus as part of a “Chefs in Schools Collaborative” pilot project, according to a...
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Nationally and statewide, farm-to-school program is a success
With approximately 80 Kentucky school districts participating in the Farm to School program, many of them are finding special ways to celebrate National Farm to School Month, with much to...
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Event at UK library features discussion of Kentucky food traditions, how they are changing and how to capitalize on them
Story and photo by Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Local food experts gathered at the University of Kentucky April 9 to discuss how Kentucky food tradition is changing and how...
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At roundtable on food and agriculture, Prince Charles says we need to reconnect with the food system and nature, keep stock
Prince Charles “called for urgent restructuring of local and global economies to save humanity from itself” in a whirlwind visit to Louisville on Friday, James Bruggers reports for The Courier-Journal....
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Wendell and Mary Berry welcome Prince Charles and wife to Louisville, where prince will focus on local food and sustainability
In honor of a royal visit on Friday to Louisville by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who will be highlighting issues of sustainability and local food,...
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Prince Charles to keynote Louisville health and food symposium
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles Prince Charles of the United Kingdom will keynote a health symposium in Louisville March 20. The prince of Wales and his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, duchess...
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Comer encourages Kentucky schools to serve fresh local foods on ‘Farm Fresh Fridays’
State Agriculture Commissioner James Comer wants Kentucky schools to offer fresh, local foods for students on Farm Fresh Fridays. The program will launch with Farm to School Month in October,...
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Lexington preschool becomes Kentucky’s first with a farm-to-school food program
About 20 years from now, today’s preschoolers will be purchasing and preparing their own food. What if they spent 13 years in an educational setting that taught farm-to-school practices? Children...