Umpqua Bank partners to Grow Healthy Lunch for Kids
February 6, 2018
Umpqua Bank partners to Grow Healthy Lunch for Kids
Julie Farnham, Woodland Branch Manager (left), with Anya Perron-Burdick, YF2F Program Manager.
Umpqua Bank is supporting Yolo Farm to Fork’s Growing Lunch program at two Woodland elementary schools: Dingle and Maxwell. The grant for $5,000 will help pay the expenses of the garden-to-cafeteria program – Growing Lunch. Through Growing Lunch Yolo Farm to Fork sustains edible gardens in local schools where students to plant, grow, harvest, weigh, wash and deliver garden-grown produce to their cafeterias for service in school meals. From the fall of 2016, students have harvested, washed, and served over 3,000 pounds of fresh garden vegetables in their school’s meals program. “We’re very grateful for Umpqua’s support,” stated Perron-Burdick, “Edible school gardens are one of the best ways to improve kids’ nutrition while they learn the basics of growing food and connect that knowledge to their classroom curriculum.”
To learn more about Yolo Farm to Fork’s Growing Lunch program in your community, visit www.yolofarmtofork.org/growing-lunch
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