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National Magazine Spotlights Vineyard Schools' 'Locavore' Lunches
Bon Appetit magazine has named Martha's Vineyard to a short list of seven school systems where students are eating locally-grown food in their campus cafeterias. On the Vineyard, they even grown their own.
Martha's Vineyard public school cafeteria staff, students and especially the Island Grown Initiative got a high-profile pat on the back this week from the tastemaking foodie magazine Bon Appetit.
In an article posted Friday and titled "At These Public Schools, Cafeteria Food Is Healthy, Tasty—and Locavore," Martha's Vineyard is on a short list of seven school systems where students are eating locally-grown food in their campus cafeterias — and even growing their own.
Bon Appetit reporter Hannah Wallace highlights the work of Island Grown Initiative, with school staff, students, families and volunteers, "to plant school gardens, renovate and modernize dated kitchens, and increase the amount of island-grown food on school menus."
Wallace also mentions "West Tisbury School, which got a brand-new kitchen two years ago thanks to the hard labor of skilled parent volunteers," and praises the "fantastic fish chowder (made with sea bass caught off of Lambert's Cove Beach)" which "mom and head cook Jenny DeVivo ... pairs with greens from the school's greenhouse, orange slices—not local—and pita bread."
Read "At These Public Schools, Cafeteria Food Is Healthy, Tasty—and Locavore"
The other six public school systems spotlighted in the Bon Appetit article are
Wenatchee, WA; Kalispell, MT; Portland, OR; Jackson, TN; New York City and Minneapolis.