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Maggie Rubick loves a garden. “It’s my happy place,” she says. Rubick grew up in Manchester, Vermont, where she now teaches at the Northshire Day School, but she really began to develop her connection with the natural world during her college years when she worked at the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Botanic Garden. During her time at the Botanic Garden, she was introduced to the Farm-to-School initiative.
She returned to Vermont 12 years ago and, in 2009, began teaching at Northshire, where she looked for ways to bring Farm to School into her classroom. Rubick wanted her young charges to become aware of good nutrition and to learn more about local sources of nutritious food. Farm-to-School teachers do just that, and in the process they also support Vermont agriculture.
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WASHINGTON, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A bipartisan group of Senate leaders have introduced the
Farm to School Act of 2021 to support schools, farmers, and communities in building back equitably from the pandemic. The bill, sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Susan Collins (R-ME), will expand funding and programmatic scope of the highly successful USDA Farm to School Grant Program, ensuring more communities have a competitive opportunity to benefit from the program. A similar bill was introduced in the House in March. National Farm to School Network (NFSN) and National Sustainable Agricu