Cheetos and ginger ale were not what Colorado schoolteacher Mendy Heaps thought her students should be eating for lunch, so she started selling fresh fruit out of an overhead projector cart. Kids, parents and teachers loved it, but the principal put a stop to it.
By Sam Oldenburg/Farm toFork Catfish, strawberries, garbanzo beans, flour and walnuts: what do they all have in common? These foods are just some of the nearly 200 USDA foods school food services have to choose from. USDA foods, commonly called commodities, are foods purchased by the United States Department of Agriculture to be used for the [Read More]
By Drew Mitchell/Farm to Fork
Shoppers eagerly flocked to buy produce, herbs, cut flowers, cheeses, crafts, organic pasta sauce, and even composted manure early Saturday morning as the Southern Kentucky Regional Farmers Market opened for the season.
By Sam Oldenburg/Farm to Fork At 5:30 in the morning she’s waiting for the milkman. At 7:30 she gets the daily hug from Brandon. When 8:30 comes, she’s tallying lunch counts. It’s time to serve the main meal at 11 a.m. At 2 p.m. she leaves, coming back to repeat the process the next day. [Read More]
Farm to Fork photographers share their photographs from the final field trip to Au Naturel Farm outside Smiths Grove.
By Sam Oldenburg/Farm to Fork Joe and Debbie O’Daniel opened up their farm outside of Bowling Green to us on Feb. 19. Joe showed us the vegetables, fruits and herbs growing in his hoop houses, along with his pigs and chickens. Everything raised at the farm is organic except for asparagus, but the farm is [Read More]
Take a look at O’Daniel Farms through the lens of Farm to Fork photographers.
Our photographers share photographs from the first field trip of the semester, to the WKU Farm.
Farm to Fork photographers Chris Fryer, J.P. Mayer, Jacob Hill and Sam Oldenburg share some of their photographs from the class trip to Robey Farms Dairy Feb. 12.
Sam Oldenburg is a first year student at Western Kentucky University. A native of Minnesota, Sam was attracted to Western because of the quality of its photojournalism program. He enjoys telling the stories of all people through the many platforms journalism is presented in. Sam works as a staff photographer for the Talisman, Western’s yearbook, [Read More]
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