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VIRGINIA FARMERS AND SCHOOL FOOD SERVICE DIRECTORS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN FARM-TO-SCHOOL PROGRAM
Virginia Dep. of Agriculture (6/19/08)
"In order to get more locally-grown fresh fruit and vegetables into the diets of Virginia’s school children, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has created a Farm-to-School program and Web site."
FROM DIVE TO DESTINATION
Culpeper Star-Exponent (5/29/08)
"Nineteen years ago the parking lot on the corner of Davis and Commerce streets was filled with drunks and drug dealers. The lot smelled of urine and it wasn’t exactly what you’d call a hotspot for tourists in Culpeper...What was once a place no one would visit has now become the talk of the town with the Downtown Farmer’s Market bringing in crowds every April through October. "
VIRGINIA CENTURY FARMS TOP 1,000
Daily Progress (04/25/2008)
A program that acknowledges Virginia families who have owned and worked farms for more than 100 years has recognized more than a thousand homesteads.
HIGHER OPERATING COSTS PUT PINCH ON FARMERS
The Lynchburg News and Advance (04/21/2008)
Adventure Farm manager Carl Tinder is coming up with creative ways to keep the farm profitable, including raising goats and growing soybeans at the traditionally cattle operation in Earlysvillle.
FILLING A GROWING NEED
Washington Post (4/13/08)
"On a crisp spring Saturday in the Shenandoah foothills, a cry rang out and multiplied through the potato fields, down the lines of tilled dirt, past hats and bluejeans and little kids trying to remember what seven inches looked like to space the spuds...The crowd cheered with the enthusiasm of people whose work that day was greater than the day itself. They were part of an unusual charitable effort, planting crops to supply more than 430 food banks in nine cities and 25 counties in Virginia, including Fauquier and Loudoun."
