NJ to Allow Community Garden-Grown Vegetables in Public Schools

If New Jersey can do it, so can we!

The New Jersey General Assembly unanimously approved a bill on Monday that will allow state schools to serve produce grown in community gardens.

“Community gardens are an untapped resource to provide healthy, low-cost snacks for our state’s children, especially those living in food deserts,” said Assemblyman Gilbert Wilson, the Camden County Democrat who drafted the bill, in a press release. “We need to create multiple opportunities to combat childhood obesity, which is plaguing the children living in our urban areas.” Read more...