UC Cooperative Extension will host a FoodCorps service member

When FoodCorps begins operating in California this year, one of its "service members" will be hosted by UC Cooperative Extension in San Andreas, said an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

FoodCorps is a national organization that connects kids with healthy food. It selected two non-profit organizations - Life Lab and Community Alliance with Family Farmers - to administer the California program. Those two organizations selected 10 hosts, including UCCE.

According to its website, FoodCrops "strives to give all youth an enduring relationship with healthy food. We do that by placing motivated leaders in limited-resource communities for a year of public service."

The paid service members:

• Teach kids about what healthy food is and where it comes from
• Build and tend school gardens
• Bring high-quality local food into public school cafeterias

Building school gardens is a one goal of the FoodCorps program.

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