Green Acre Radio: How Obama helped bring healthy local foods to more people here

Martha Baskin looks at the way a small amount of the Obama administration's stimulus money is helping King County farmers, school kids, and health.

Children at the Prospect Enrichment Pre-school dig into healthy local foods.

Green Acre Radio

Children at the Prospect Enrichment Pre-school dig into healthy local foods.

A pre-school student's drawing of local foods.

Green Acre Radio

A pre-school student's drawing of local foods.

Everybody’s talking about healthy, locally grown food, but is everybody getting the food? Not yet. But a new pilot project is slowly turning things around. The project, “Farm to Table,” connects fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables with those who need them most, young children and seniors. The pilot took off this spring at senior centers. This week a preschool received its first delivery. Money to jump-start the pilot came from stimulus dollars awarded to counties and cities with public health programs designed to improve nutrition for low-income populations. 

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About the Author

Martha Baskin is an environmental reporter, whose work on the subject began with a project for the King Conservation District. Green Acre Radio was born shortly afterwards. She was one of the founding reporters for Pacifica's Free Speech Radio News and has been a contributor to the National Radio Project's Making Contact.

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