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THE ASTORIAN • SATuRdAy, OcTObER 19, 2019
Food web brings
local produce to
local schools
By HAILEY HOFFMAN
The Astorian
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The food web brought in a variety of vegetables, demonstrating to students that produce
doesn’t always come in the perfect shape or the same color, as seen in classic grocery stores.
or the fourth year, the North Coast Food Web hosted Food Day at four ele-
mentary schools in Clatsop County — Seaside Heights, Cannon Beach Acad-
emy, Lewis and Clark and Warrenton. The food web brought dozens of local-
ly-grown fruits and vegetables to the schools to educate students on where their food
comes from and to encourage them to “eat the rainbow.” The event included a Produce
Petting Zoo that allowed students to touch and smell — but not lick or eat — produce
that they’re not typically used to seeing.
Photos by Hailey Hoffman/The Astorian
Caitlin Seyfried quizzes students about their knowledge of vegetables and other produce at Lewis and Clark Elementary School on Wednesday.
LEFT: Fourth-graders Emiliano Jimenez Cruz, Tru Baca-Valero and Jagen Durham look at a piece of purple kale and other garden vegetables. Baca-Valero claimed he’d had kale before
and was not a fan. RIGHT: Keira Verity carefully inspects a knobby fingerling potato during the Produce Petting Zoo.
Joyce Senior gives Sam Mather a pencil and a fresh pear from the Astoria Co+op as souvenirs.