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What Works for Health Strategy

Farm to school programs

Incorporate locally grown foods into school meals and snacks, often with visits from food producers, cooking classes, nutrition and waste reduction efforts, and school gardens

What Works for Health Strategy

Farmers markets

Support multiple vendor markets where producers sell goods such as fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy items, and prepared foods directly to consumers

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Farms Crop Up in the Bronx

The slice of land in the Bronx at first appears no different than many of the borough's derelict empty lots, where any glimpse of green often resolves into a tangle of weeds.

But those who peered closer on a recent afternoon saw something unexpected: still-green tomatoes bulging from their vines. Tops of carrots, known as "shoulders," poked up from the earth, while a young orchard sprouted against the weathered wall of the Major Deegan Expressway.

What Works for Health Strategy