{"id":2003,"date":"2010-09-21T18:33:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2012-10-10T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:35:36","slug":"vote-for-your-favorite-farm-to-school-youtube-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2010\/09\/21\/vote-for-your-favorite-farm-to-school-youtube-video\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE FARM TO SCHOOL YOUTUBE VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryland Contest Encourages Students to Think about Locally-Grown Foods<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD (Sept. 21, 2010) – The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has posted the video submissions from students across the state who answered the question, \u201cWhat does \u2018local food\u2019 mean to you?\u201d\u00a0 Vote for your favorite video by going to the Maryland Farm to School website<\/a>.\u00a0 Deadline for voting is noon on Monday, October 11. Winners of the Grand Prize and Popular Prize will be announced by MDA in a press release on Tuesday, October 12.\u00a0 Fifteen videos were submitted for the inaugural contest. Students demonstrated their creativity with video content ranging from skits to interviewing farmers to the abstract.\u00a0 Contestants are from Cecil and Anne Arundel to St. Mary and Carroll Counties and they range in age from 2nd and 3rd graders to high school seniors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased with the student response to our inaugural YouTube contest and we encourage everyone to check out the videos and vote for their favorite one. Our goal is to engage students about the origins of their food in a way that is both meaningful and fun,\u201d said Agriculture Secretary Hance. \u201cThis contest aims to educate students about where their food comes from and all of the benefits of buying local. It\u2019s important to teach students that food does not come from a grocery store \u2013 it comes from a farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Grand Prize winner(s) will receive an Apple iPod Touch, a Maryland State Park Pass, and a school lunchtime visit from MDA Secretary Buddy Hance, while the Popular Prize winner (s) will receive Maryland State Park Pass.\u00a0\u00a0 Judges will include representatives of the agricultural community, Maryland Department of Agriculture, Maryland Cooperative Extension, Maryland Department of State Department of Education and the film industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

This contest is part of the Jane Lawton Farm-to-School Program, which was established to bring more locally grown food to Maryland schools and to educate students about the importance of local agriculture.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Governor Martin O’Malley officially designated September 13-17, 2010, as Maryland Homegrown School Lunch Week and U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Dr. Janey Thornton joined Secretary Hance, farmers, and state, local, and school officials to kick off the 3rd annual Maryland Homegrown School Lunch Week on Sept. 10 with special classroom educational activities and locally-grown lunch with Edgewood Elementary School students in Harford County.
\nThe demand for Maryland-grown food is growing. Buying locally is a key to ensuring a smart, green and growing future for Maryland families. It preserves farmland, protects the environment, bolsters local economies, and promotes healthy adults and children by providing wholesome, nutritious, great-tasting fresh food.
\nMore details and the Official Contest Rules may be found at www.marylandfarmtoschool.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Maryland Contest Encourages Students to Think about Locally-Grown Foods ANNAPOLIS, MD (Sept. 21, 2010) – The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has posted the video submissions from students across the state who answered the question, \u201cWhat does \u2018local food\u2019 mean to you?\u201d\u00a0 Vote for your favorite video by going to the Maryland Farm to School  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}