Farm to School - FoodRoutes

Since 1935, the U.S. has lost 4.7 million farms. Fewer than one million Americans now claim farming as a primary occupation

–USDA

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Schools should be a place where our children can thrive and form healthy habits that will last throughout their lives. Tragically, many school systems ? compelled by dwindling budgets and lack of community support ? are beginning to serve food catered by fast food restaurants, while kids are continuing to eat fatty, non-nutritious foods.

Did You Know?

Only 2 percent of America?s children meet all the recommendations of the USDA?s Food Guide Pyramid (USDA, Eat Smart, Play Hard).
Less than 20 percent eat the recommended servings of vegetables and less than 15 percent eat the recommended serving of fruit (USDA, Eat Smart, Play Hard).
In the U.S. at least one child in five is overweight. Over the last 20 years the number of overweight children has increased by more than 50 percent (USDA, Childhood Obesity: Causes and Prevention).
According to the CDC, One in three U.S. children born in 2000 will become diabetic unless children start making serious changes to their lifestyles and eating habits.

There Is An Alternative

Fortunately, you can help counteract this dangerous trend by starting Farm to School programs in your area. Through a Farm to School program, concerned parents, teachers, students and administrators can get local, farm-fresh produce served in school cafeterias.

Cornell University?s Farm to School pilot pro www.foodroutes.orgError Page

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Fri May 09 17:00:19 PDT 2008 www.foodroutes.org ERRORPAGE: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.
Stacktrace: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor12.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1074)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:2985)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:2871)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3414)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1936)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2060)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2536)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2465)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeQuery(StatementImpl.java:1383)
	at com.bitmechanic.sql.PooledStatement.executeQuery(PooledStatement.java:43)
	at com.oceangroup.beans.sql.SqlPool.query(SqlPool.java:197)
	at org.apache.jsp.farmtoschool_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.farmtoschool_jsp:524)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:331)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:433)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
	at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:200)
	at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:283)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:773)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:703)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:895)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost.
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:2431)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:2882)
	... 32 more