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Appalachian Sustainable
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306 West Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Voice: 828-236-1282
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Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.


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Growing Minds in the News

Schools cafeterias opt for local produce - Asheville Citizan Times, November 3, 2008

Farm Field Trips and Cooking Classes at Brush Creek Elementary - Press Release, October 6, 2008

Educators gather to study food initiative - Asheville Citizan Times, July 18th, 2008

Farm to School program educates kids about local and healthy food - Blue Ridge Now, June 11, 2008

Farm to School Program Guide - World Hunger Year (WHY) 2008

Emily Jackson Convinces tough critics to eat healthy and locally - -New Life Journal, March 2008

Project aims to suppy schools with local food - Blue Ridge Now, August 27th, 2007

Two Rivers School Takes Field Trip to Farm - Asheville Citizen Times, July 1, 2007

Childhood Obesity Programs to Continue - Asheville Citizen Times, June 1, 2007

Local farm group to testify before Congress - Asheville Citizen Times, April 23rd, 2007

Children Will Eat Their Vegetables - Asheville Citizen Times, April 4th, 2007

Project to Serve Head Start Children - Asheville Citizen Times, March 28th, 2007

Healthy Food and Communities Plan Presented to Congressional Representatives - Press Release - March 19th, 2007

Grow it, Pick it, Eat it - Asheville Citizen Times, January 16, 2007

Going Local: Paths to Success for Farm to School Programs - Growing Minds featured as a case study (pg 20), National Farm to School Program publication, December 2006

Workshop focuses on raising agriculture awareness- Watauga Democrat, September 25th, 2006

The Value of Fresh Produce - Asheville Citizen Times, August 15, 2006

Gardens Grow Kids' Curiosity About Food - Columbia Daily Tribune, August 9th, 2006

Growing Minds - Blue Ridge Country Magazine, May/June 2006

Getting Kids Hooked on Gardening - New Life Journal, April 9th, 200

Good Things Cooking in North Carolina - Kids Gardening

Kids develop a taste for healthy foods - WNC Parent, 2006

Sustenance for Students is Best Homegrown - Asheville Citizen Times, August 7th, 2005

Farm to School in Western North Carolina - New Life Journal 2004

 

 
Kids Comments on Farm to School

From Nikolay
The garden lets me learn outside of school. It let me be able to smell different smells. I like to taste things in our garden.
 
From Ashley
The school garden helps me make good food choices when I'm shopping with my folks.
 
From Sam D.
Thank you for teaching us about growing and planting plants. It was graet seeing Swiss chard and kale plants. And zinnias lettuce and onin seeds. We will all water and wamth.
 
From Breanna
I platid some onions. I appreciate you lating us have a garden. It was fun pulling the weeds. And fun plating the seeds. When some of them need pold we will pull them up.
 


 
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