food systems – FoodCorps https://foodcorps.org FoodCorps connects Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:59:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://foodcorps.org/cms/assets/uploads/cache/2016/08/cropped-FoodCorps-Icon-Logo-e1471987264861/239888058.png food systems – FoodCorps https://foodcorps.org 32 32 Four Things President Biden Can Do for Students’ Wellbeing https://foodcorps.org/four-things-president-biden-can-do-for-students-wellbeing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-things-president-biden-can-do-for-students-wellbeing Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:59:22 +0000 https://foodcorps.org/?p=18467 The first 100 days of Biden’s presidency are an opportune time to take steps towards free school meals, strengthened SNAP benefits, and more.

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]]> By Mamiko Vuillemin and Timothy Barchak for Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

After a tumultuous election season, former Vice President Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States.

In the past, Biden has vowed to invest in schools, students, and local food systems. Furthermore, Biden’s predecessor, President Donald Trump, spent much of his four years in office undermining access to healthy food and making it harder for families to put food on the table. The first 100 days of Biden’s presidency are an opportune time for the president-elect to take steps toward ensuring all our nation’s kids have access to delicious, nutritious food at school.

Here’s what the new administration can do for kids and families.

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]]> What’s in Your Trash?: Exploring School Lunch Through Compost! https://foodcorps.org/whats-in-your-trash-exploring-school-lunch-through-compost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-in-your-trash-exploring-school-lunch-through-compost https://foodcorps.org/whats-in-your-trash-exploring-school-lunch-through-compost/#respond Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:24:20 +0000 http://northcarolina.blog.foodcorps.org/?p=206 The post What’s in Your Trash?: Exploring School Lunch Through Compost! appeared first on FoodCorps.

]]> 5th graders at Cherokee Elementary learning about food systems by helping our growing corn through all the steps it takes to get to us, and finding out what happens to the corn after we're done with it?
5th graders at Cherokee Elementary learned about food systems by helping our growing corn through all the steps it takes to get to us, and finding out what happens to the corn after we’re done with it!
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“Ralph the Worm” and his friends helping 5th graders learn what we can and can’t put in the compost!
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After we found out what foods we could compost, we had to learn how to identify them on our lunch trays.  Here students participate in a trial run to identify what food groups our foods belong to. So much fun, and a great opportunity to talk about all the foods that make a healthy diet!
Weighing compost
For 4 days 5th graders separated all the waste they generated at lunch into appropriate categories, and then weighed them to see how much of what we throw away could be composted, recycled, or saved!  In 4 days 5th grade made almost 130lbs of waste!
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After all their hard work, here are the results from 5th grade’s compost pilot.  Using the numbers they generated from the expiriment we made a big poster to hang in the cafeteria, and show to everyone the huge impact composting made. They reduced their total lunch waste by 64%!
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We hung several posters about compost made by 5th grade in the cafeteria, to share with everyone the wonders of turning our waste to beautiful soil! Here we see Ralph the Worm continues to educate!

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