Schools across the country are pairing with local food movements to introduce children to healthier, more environmentally friendly lunch fare. At St. Philip's Academy, an Episcopal college-preparatory school for underprivileged children in Newark, N.J., children are eating foods grown in the school garden as well as from local farms. Andrew Reaodamacela (center), a first-grader, and Cayla Harris (left) and Alazeera Ocasio, kindergartners, (right) are excited about their salads during lunch at the cafeteria.
Stephanie Keith/Special to the Christian Science Monitor
