Corn on the Cob a Big Hit at Haldane!

On Monday, the Haldane cafeteria served its first Farmer's Choice of the year: Freshly picked, locally grown, organic corn on the cob!

Thanks to the help from several parents and students at the PTA picnic last week, we shucked 150 ears of corn, and saved Cindy, our food service director, some time in the kitchen so she could serve the corn for Monday's lunch.

The corn was donated by a private family in Garrison that is growing a field of corn on a plot on 9D just for pleasure. Little did they expect to get a bumper crop of over 500 ears of corn to give away!

Haldane has come a long way with its farm to school program. We began two years ago with a few Chef in the Classroom visits and a couple of Farmer's Choice specials. Now we have a chef visiting every classroom K-5, serve monthly vegetable recipes created in the classrooms, and have a weekly local salad bar with lettuce, radishes, and tomatoes donated by Glynwood Farms, And this year, we finally have local milk served daily to all our students! 

In addition to all that, on Friday Cindy will be serving kale soup, next week a bok choi stir-fry. All fresh and local. Yesterday, I delivered 49 pounds of tomatoes to Cindy and she and Elsa were remarking how beautiful they looked. So, I said to her, "Cindy, Haldane is probably the only school in the country serving organic, heirloom tomatoes in their cafeteria!"

And if this already didn't sound too good to be true,we are saving the district a substantial amount of money since most of this produce is coming in as donations.

Haldane really is special! As you can see, the program is growing quickly and we could use more volunteers. Please let me know if you want to get more involved in this program. I will try to set up a meeting later in the month to discuss how we can all work together to make this program even stronger. 

Email me at: sandy@hvfs.org

Cheers!

Sandy