LEONARDTOWN, MD – St. Mary’s County Public Schools will celebrate Maryland Homegrown School Lunch Week during the week of September 14–18, 2015 by including locally-grown products in school lunches. Evergreen Elementary School will also be hosting a visit from Cornelia during the week of September 14–18, 2015.
The Cornelia program (sponsored by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission) includes coloring books, animated videos, live videos, and two life-size mascot characters (Cornelia and Couch Potato), and teaches children about the importance of an active, healthy lifestyle in an effort to combat childhood obesity and enhance the role farms play in healthy eating and exercise.
Maryland Home Grown School Lunch Week aims to bring more Maryland-grown products to school lunch rooms and to help educate students about where their food comes from, how it is produced, and the benefits of a healthy diet. More information about Maryland’s Farm-to-School initiative is available at:
http://mda.maryland.gov/farm_to_school/Pages/farm_to_school.aspx.