October 24 marks the fourth annual Food Day created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest to encourage young and old alike to connect to “real food.”
Year-round celebrations culminate with a day of action nationwide with over 4,700 events held in every state. Last year, the first ever “Apple Crunch Day” was held in conjunction with Food Day in New York with 1 million people taking bites of apples with the “crunch heard ‘round the world.”
Children who know where food comes, what to do with food, along with how to cook, will have an advantage when it comes to healthy food choices, avoiding obesity and other health problems. Why not jump on the apple bandwagon, source some local apples and encourage your students to take a juicy bite this October 24th?
Participation in this year’s Big Apple Crunch on Food Day is simple. Schools can register at https://bigapplecrunch.squarespace.com/individual-sign-ups/ and while you’re at it, don’t forget that it is National Farm to School Month and you can share your apple crunching stories with the farm to school movement nationwide at http://www.farmtoschool.org/about/farm-to-school-month.
Click here to learn more and find sources for New Jersey apples.
