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By Matt Pelkey
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
A Rappahannock school gardening program beat out over 240 other contestants to receive national recognition for achievements in hunger and nutrition education.
The Farm-to-Table program — a collaborative effort between the Headwaters Foundation, Rappahannock public schools and community organizations including the Rappahannock County Farm Bureau, the Young Farmland Fund and the Sunnyside Institute — recently received the Healthy Sprouts Award from the National Gardening Association.
The program was one of 20 that received the award and will be presented with a $200 gift certificate to Gardener's Supply, a gardening supply company, as well as 25 packets of seeds and materials on education and nutrition.
“This is our first national recognition,” said Farm-to-Table director Trista Scheuerlein. “We’ve had other schools in Virginia who are interested in repheating our program so we do have growing interest, but this is really exciting.”
Farm-to-Table was honored for two of-its projects in particular that focus on nutrition awareness, Sdtouerlein said.
One of the projects consists of seasonal and local food tastings at Rappahannock schools.
“The idea is to teach them about eating locally and also about the importance of eating nutritious foods,” Scheuerlein said.
Recently growers from Sunnyside Farms handed out an apple to each student at Rappahannock elementary school.
“The same people who had harvested them the day before were giving them out to the kids,” Scheuerlein said.
This year the Farm-to-Table will host four tastings.
The program also grows vegetables at Rappahannock high school and local forms to stock the school salad bars. This year students pulled about 550 pounds of produce from the groand.
The vegetables also end up under the knives of students in Rappahannock high school’s culinary program. An upcoming treat to be prepared by the students is chard
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