Farm-to-School at Cordley Elementary School

Check out this article from The Lawrence Journal World! It's titled "Lessons in lunch: Elementary students learn ingredients come from places besides grocery store" (the above picture is from that article, found at the LJWorld's Web site.)

This Friday, at Cordley Elementary School, local Lawrence restaurant and farmers are teaming up to produce an all-local lunch for the Cordley students. According to the article, "The program, headed by Lawrence resident Linda Cottin, is a full-scale learning experience involving classroom presentations, hands-on participation, and, of course, lunch."

Our catering manager, Dana Hanguaer, has been involved with the planning and implementation of this awesome event, which is designed to get students, parents, and administrators thinking about ways to health-ify and localize school lunches. (We're donating salad dressings for the salad bar).

Below is the amazing menu. Please take note of the participating restaurants and vendors. Pachamama's staff is so proud to be part of a community of local-minded businesses. Feel free to check out their Web sites (you can click on the links below) and offer them your patronage!

Farm-to-School Lunch Menu and select ingredients
Vegetarian Lasagna: Local handmade pasta from 715, Central Soy tofu, local vegetables and Alma cheese.

Beef Lasagna: Local handmade pasta from 715, M & J Ranch beef, local vegetables, Alma cheese and béchamel sauce.

Gluten-Free/Dairy-Free Lasagna: Central Soy tofu and local vegetables.

Whole-Wheat Breadsticks: Local Acme flour.

Salad Bar: Local produce including mixed greens, tomatoes, onions, radishes, turnips, snap peas, carrots, strawberries and hard-boiled eggs, served with locally made vinaigrette and ranch dressings from Pachamama's.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp: Wohletz Farm strawberries picked by Cordley students, rhubarb from JCCC's student garden and Anthony's Beehive honey.

Milk: Iwig Family Dairy milk.


To continue to learn about local eating in Lawrence:

Friend the Cordley Farm-to-School Lunch Event group on Facebook.

Learn more about the Downtown Lawrence Farmer's Market.

Check out the resources available through The Community Mercantile

Join online Locavore groups through WellCommons' Locavore Group

Readers, please feel free to post additional ways to learn about local eating! We welcome your comments!