Farm to School Program seeks to improve student health and promote responsible agriculture.

California has partnered with the Climate Mayors network to advance the Farm to School initiative, a program that is an example and a national model for ensuring that students have access to healthy school meals made with locally sourced ingredients and as a result can support small, disadvantaged farmers who practice environmentally friendly agriculture.

Jorge Maldonado, Mayor of the City of Nogales in Nogales, AZ, who is part of the network of mayors supporting the Farm to School program, discusses how they are working.

In addition, in order for them to achieve the goal of helping students and farmers they even have partnerships with the community food bank.

Another group that is favored by this program are the tribes where there is a lack of legume agriculture.

In addition, he comments that there is support from the state directed to groups that are mainly vulnerable, but carry out sustainable agriculture.

Jorge Maldonado, says how the Farm to School program helps to combat climate change.

Jorge Maldonado, Mayor of the City of Nogales in Nogales, points out that in order to achieve the success of the program it is important to support sustainable agriculture where the food comes from.

This strategy has another benefit because students also learn where food comes from and take care of the planet, let’s listen to Jorge Maldonado, Mayor of the City of Nogales in Nogales Arizona.

He says that they are supporting and guiding the students so that they can study and get ahead.
Jorge Maldonado recalls the importance of promoting these types of programs that not only support the students, but also have an impact on the community.

This dispatch is produced in part by The Walton Family Foundation and is part of the series Cuando se seca el Arroyo.