In an Era of Mega-Farms, These Schools Still Serve (Some) Locally Grown Food

In an Era of Mega-Farms, These Schools Still Serve (Some) Locally Grown Food

Jeanine Bowman has been working to improve school lunches in Minnesota for more than a decade. Long a champion of small farms and local agriculture, the district food service director for the Morris, Minnesota public schools uses as much of her budget as she can to supply school lunches with foods from local farms, including cabbage, peppers and tomatoes.Take tomato soup. Cans of soup can be high in sodium. “We found that if we made it from scra…