{"id":78657,"date":"2021-04-14T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=78657"},"modified":"2021-04-14T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:29:00","slug":"california-school-district-partners-nonprofit-deliver-weekly-meal-boxes-brimming-whole-organic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/california-school-district-partners-nonprofit-deliver-weekly-meal-boxes-brimming-whole-organic\/","title":{"rendered":"California School District Partners With Nonprofit To Deliver Weekly Meal Boxes Brimming With of Whole, Organic Ingredients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Each box contains a total of 28 meals: seven breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">When Barbara Jellison, food services director for West Contra Costa Unified School district, reached out to Judi Shils to ask if the district could purchase 130,000 pounds of local organic produce every week, neither of them knew if it was possible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Shils runs Conscious Kitchen, a local nonprofit program. When she contacted local producers asking if they thought they could comply, they reacted with disbelief. Then elation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201cNobody had seen quantity like this. Organic companies have not been invited into the institutional supply chain in any regular way,\u201d Shils says. Talking with business owners, she realized that \u201cthese purchases could save businesses in our community.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Like many districts across the country, West Contra Costa had to find its footing during the early days of the pandemic. They started by supplying families with pre-portioned meals at curbside pickups.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">One pioneering California school district now distributes 23,000 boxes of organic food weekly throughout the district.&nbsp;\u201cBetween November and January, millions of pounds of organic produce were able to be sourced,\u201d Jellison says. \u201cAnd not only the produce but proteins and whole grains.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":78658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,1031],"tags":[2,3],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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