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For Immediate Release: Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018
DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig will celebrate Iowa
Local Food Day at Lincoln High School in Des Moines at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday,
Oct. 11.
Naig will help serve a breakfast of sausage
breakfast pizza, sunny corn muffins, and sweet potato rolls. Items for this breakfast were sourced from
eight different growers across the state and include dairy, meat, grains and
vegetables.
Naig will also
present Chad Taylor, the Executive Chef of Des Moines Public Schools, with a
Secretary’s Ag Leader Award in recognition of his efforts to expand the
offerings of local foods in the Des Moines schools.
The details of the event follow here:
Who: Mike Naig, Iowa Secretary of
Agriculture
Where: Lincoln High School, 2600 SW 9th
St., Des Moines
When: 7:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018
What: Naig will help serve breakfast to students
at Lincoln High School that includes items sourced from eight different growers
across the state and include dairy, meat, grains and vegetables. Naig will also
present Chad Taylor, the Executive Chef of Des Moines Public Schools, with a
Secretary’s Ag Leader Award in recognition of his efforts to expand the
offerings of local foods in the Des Moines schools.
Iowa
school food service staff will be preparing over 170,000 meals using Iowa food
products in more than 150 schools in nearly 50 school districts as part of Iowa
Local Food Day celebrations. Participating schools will receive banners,
posters and stickers and other fun items to help celebrate Iowa Local Food Day.
To see which schools are participating in Iowa Local Food Day or learn more
about this event, visit https://www.iowalocalfoodday.org/.
The
Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship received a $100,000 Farm to
School Support Services Grant from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
that has supported a number of Farm to School activities throughout the year.
Activities have included training for growers and food service directors
focused on sourcing locally grown items, partnering with Summer Food Service
Programs (SFSP), and the 2018 Iowa Farm to School Conference this past June.
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For more information, contact Dustin Vande Hoef, (515) 281-3375 or (515) 326-1616 (cell) or Dustin.VandeHoef@IowaAgriculture.gov
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