The school year and growing season just don't coincide other than a brief flirtation with the end of peach, pear and tomato season. After that, there's only storage crops like apples that pretty much run out by February. There's no distribution system or central delivery and pickup points, which means school food service directors have to fetch food themselves if they're not dealing with one of the few farms willing to deliver. And local products tend to be significantly more expensive than what school districts typically buy. Those are just a few of the obstacles facing schools that want to add more locally sourced food to their menus. But help may be near. The No. 1 recommendation in the first report of the Governor’s Council for Agricultural Development in its first report released earlier this month is wider distribution of products from the state's farms, including getting more Connecticut food into school cafeterias.
Source: Connecticut Mirror, 4/22/13, Farm-to-School; Governor's Report
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