{"id":12967,"date":"2012-09-12T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=12967"},"modified":"2012-09-12T11:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T15:04:17","slug":"how-the-department-of-agriculture-has-expanded-floridas-student-food-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/12\/how-the-department-of-agriculture-has-expanded-floridas-student-food-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Department of Agriculture Has Expanded Florida&#8217;s Student Food Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12968\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 154px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/12\/how-the-department-of-agriculture-has-expanded-floridas-student-food-programs\/putnam_picture\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12968\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12968\" title=\"putnam_picture\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/09\/putnam_picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">freshfromflorida.com<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Adam Putnam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>School nutrition will be the big topic at a conference in Orlando today.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam will tell the Florida Association of District School Superintendents about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshforfloridakids.com\/\">moving the school nutrition program to his office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.ifas.ufl.edu\/smallfarms\/PDFs%20and%20handouts%20for%20web\/Friday\/4%20Farm%20to%20School\/Safley_FL_Farm_to_School.pdf\">the state\u2019s program<\/a> moved from the Department of Education to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.<\/p>\n<p>The move was the required by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshfromflorida.com\/newsroom\/fact_sheets\/pdf\/FactSheet-HealthySchoolsForHealthyLivesAct.pdf\">Healthy Schools for Healthy Lives Act<\/a>, passed by the Florida Legislature last year to consolidate the state\u2019s school nutrition programs under one department.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/session\/bill\/2011\/1312\">After the bill was signed<\/a>, Putnam issued a statement saying, \u201cTogether, we\u2019re going to direct more of Florida\u2019s fresh fruits and vegetables to Florida students. We\u2019re going to help Florida\u2019s children build healthier eating habits. And we\u2019re going to take on the challenges of the childhood obesity epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Division of Food, Nutrition and Wellness oversees the school food program with a goal of enhancing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshfromflorida.com\/divisions\/fnw\/farm_to_school.html\">Farm to School effort<\/a> with lots of fresh produce for kids.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the use of an online database &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/fl.marketmaker.uiuc.edu\/\">Market Maker<\/a> &#8212; which helps schools find growers nearby who have the produce items they need.<\/p>\n<p>Putnam is eager to tell the superintendents about the success of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshforfloridakids.com\/Sponsors\/Programs\/SummerFoodServiceProgram.aspx \">Summer Food Program.<\/a> M<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshforfloridakids.com\/Portals\/0\/MealsServedData.pdf\">illions of meals<\/a> with at least one healthy item were served to kids at <a href=\"http:\/\/app1.summerfoodflorida.org\/\">Summer Break Spots<\/a> around Florida.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time Putnam has addressed the superintendents\u2019 groups.<\/p>\n<p>His spokesman said Putnam will also discuss the department\u2019s work in identifying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaschoolnutrition.org\/4DCGI\/cms\/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&amp;DocID=49&amp;MenuKey=123\">school nutrition needs<\/a> and improving support to the districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School nutrition will be the big topic at a conference in Orlando today. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam will tell the Florida Association of District School Superintendents about moving the school nutrition program to his office. In January, the state\u2019s program moved from the Department of Education to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[547,1126,1021],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12978,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}