Green Acre Radio: How Obama helped bring healthy local foods to more people here

Martha Baskin looks at the way a small amount of the Obama administration's stimulus money is helping King County farmers, school kids, and health.

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Martha Baskin • Feb 8, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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            <p>Martha Baskin looks at the way a small amount of the Obama administration's stimulus money is helping King County farmers, school kids, and health.</p><p><strong>Everybody’s talking about healthy</strong>, locally grown food, but is everybody getting the food? Not yet. But a new pilot project is slowly turning things around. The project, “Farm to Table,” connects fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables with those who need them most, young children and seniors. The pilot took off this spring at senior centers. This week a preschool received its first delivery. Money to jump-start the pilot came from stimulus dollars awarded to counties and cities with public health programs designed to improve nutrition for low-income populations.</p><p>Click on the audio player above or <a href="http://crosscut.com/static/static_file/2011/04/15/Green_Acre_Radio_Farm_to_Table.mp3?ref=avalancheghost.one">here to listen</a>.</p>
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Martha Baskin looks at the way a small amount of the Obama administration's stimulus money is helping King County farmers, school kids, and health.

Everybody’s talking about healthy, locally grown food, but is everybody getting the food? Not yet. But a new pilot project is slowly turning things around. The project, “Farm to Table,” connects fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables with those who need them most, young children and seniors. The pilot took off this spring at senior centers. This week a preschool received its first delivery. Money to jump-start the pilot came from stimulus dollars awarded to counties and cities with public health programs designed to improve nutrition for low-income populations.

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By Martha Baskin

Martha Baskin is an environmental reporter, whose work on the subject began with a project for the King Conservation District. Green Acre Radio was born shortly afterward. Her work is currently suppor