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217 Today: Serving farm fresh food in schools is getting big federal support — but will ‘farm to school’ stick?

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Hanmei Hoffman and her husband Derrick Hoffman farm in Greeley, Colorado, where most of their produce is sold to schools. Here she's moving boxes of cucumbers from a refrigerated container and loading them onto a waiting truck to deliver them to schools along Colorado’s Front Range.
  • Photo: Rae Solomon / Special To Harvest Public Media

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Today’s headlines: 

  • Illinois state representative Maura Hirschauer is enlisting gun control advocates to help revive a bill targeting domestic violence.
  • A bell from the unfinished World War Two battleship, USS Illinois, was used in Champaign, to remember those lost in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
  • Five workers are still hospitalized after an explosion at an Archer Daniels Midland plant in Decatur on Sunday night.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn more about how the Farm-to-School movement is out to revolutionize school lunch.

Reporting today contributed by Mawa Iqbal, Jim Meadows and Rae Solomon.

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Farrah Anderson

Farrah Anderson is a 2024 graduate of the University of Illinois. At Illinois Public Media, Anderson works as a general assignment reporter focusing on police and investigative stories.