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NEWS RELEASE
October 31, 2019
ODE Partners With OSU To Launch Video Series
Teaching Students How To Eat Healthy And
Where Their Food Comes
From
The video launch helps cap off
National Farm to School Month
(Salem, Ore.) – Oregon students, do you
know where your food comes from?
If not, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and Oregon State
University’s Extension Service (OSU) can help.
The department’s Child Nutrition Programs and OSU Extension’s Food Hero
campaign have teamed up to launch a new, 50-part video series on Oregon Harvest
for Schools, which educates students on healthy, Oregon food. The
videos will be released monthly for the next few years.
The first video
chronicles a young student’s passion for her favorite lunch: salad greens
from her school garden.
The vignettes will encourage young viewers to develop healthy relationships
with Oregon-grown food by presenting a diverse group of students, farmers and
adults harvesting, preparing, cooking, and serving Oregon-grown foods.
“Simply offering healthy food is not enough. When students learn about their
food, they eat it and make lifelong healthy choices. The more they
understand, the healthier they eat. We need to help students know where their
food comes from,” said Rick Sherman, Farm to School and School Garden
Coordinator for ODE. “The video series allows students to see how whole
fruit, veggie and other food groups come from the farm and end up on their
cafeteria tray. And then they can learn about it in their classroom and see
it on their cafeteria tray. It could change their eating habits for a
lifetime.”
The video launch is a capstone to the National Farm
to School Month which celebrates food education, school gardens
and lunch trays filled with healthy, local ingredients.
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