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title: 'Cooking up a Story takes us from Farm to School'
date: '2008-09-18T20:46:53-07:00'
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categories:
  - CookingUpAStory
  - Farm
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - School
tags:
  - 'cooking up a story'
  - 'debra eschmeyer'
  - 'national farm to school network'
  - ourpdx
---

# Cooking up a Story takes us from Farm to School

It’s “using technology for the greater good” day here at Silicon Florist.

First we had [the Collective Software Initiative’s TriSano story](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/09/18/collaborative-software-initiative-launches-trisano-an-open-source-means-of-tracking-disease/ "TriSano from the Collective Software Initiative"), and now we’ve got news that Portland’s favorite online show about people, food, and sustainability—[Cooking up a Story](http://cookingupastory.com "Cooking up a Story")—is going to be [live streaming an interview](http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.31.swf?cid=292084 "Ustream") with Debra Eschmeyer from [Farm to School](http://www.farmtoschool.org/ "Farm to School").

What’s Farm to School?

> Farm to School brings healthy food from local farms to school children nationwide. These programs connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting local small farmers.

Cool hunh? Sounds a lot better than that freeze-dried salisbury steak and reconstituted mashed potatoes they had when I was a kid.

Tricia over at my [OurPDX](http://ourpdx.net "OurPDX") has joined in the fun [with this challenge](http://ourpdx.net/2008/09/live-broadcast-friday-farm-to-school-network/ "Get talking"):

> Before the broadcast, I’d like to get a discussion going about the Food to School concept. Personally, I think [many of the worlds ills could be solved](http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/factsheets/prevention/obesity.htm) if people knew where their food came from and how it actually gets to the table. If we as a society could become more connected to the farms and farmers that grow our food, maybe we would make very different choices regarding our eating habits. And, if we REALLY knew [how our food was produced](http://www.motherlindas.com/HFCS_murky.htm), would we still eat it? Ok, don’t answer that.

So take a few minutes out of your lunch hour tomorrow to sit in front of your machine and listen to the interview. It will be held at 12:15 (or so) via [UStream](http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.31.swf?cid=292084 "UStream").

And if you like, you can join in the conversation, either on [OurPDX](http://ourpdx.net/2008/09/live-broadcast-friday-farm-to-school-network/ "OurPDX") or at [Cooking up a Story](http://cookingupastory.com "Cooking up a Story").