First Lady to harvest garden Thursday with school food directors on hand
June 10, 2014 | 05:57 PM
School children and food service officials from Florida, West Virginia and Texas school districts will join First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday to harvest the summer crop from this year’s White House kitchen garden.
Children from several Washington, D.C., schools who helped the first lady plant the garden in April will now have the opportunity to harvest the produce they recently planted, the White House said today.
Also invited by the first lady to take part were three school food program directors: Lora Gilbert, the senior director for food and nutrition service in Orange County School District in Orlando, Fla.; Richard Goff, the executive director of the Office of Child Nutrition in the West Virginia Education Department, and Dora Rivas, the executive director for food and child nutrition services in the Dallas Independent School District.
“These school nutrition directors have seen success in their new school lunch programs thanks to the standards put in place by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,” the White House said in a media advisory.
Children from several Washington, D.C., schools who helped the first lady plant the garden in April will now have the opportunity to harvest the produce they recently planted, the White House said today.
Also invited by the first lady to take part were three school food program directors: Lora Gilbert, the senior director for food and nutrition service in Orange County School District in Orlando, Fla.; Richard Goff, the executive director of the Office of Child Nutrition in the West Virginia Education Department, and Dora Rivas, the executive director for food and child nutrition services in the Dallas Independent School District.
“These school nutrition directors have seen success in their new school lunch programs thanks to the standards put in place by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,” the White House said in a media advisory.
