The Importance of Farming

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” (Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution)

Foodcorps seeks to connect children to food at its roots, literally. The mission is a noble one — to help children grow up healthier.

So how do they do it? They place people called service members in limited-resource communities for one year, to teach children the following:

• What healthy food is
• Where healthy food comes from
• How to build and tend to school gardens

One of the goals is to bring improve the quality of food that students presently consume in cafeterias, according to the Foodcorps mission.

"Massaro Community Farm has been appointed one of only six new Foodcorps sites across the state of Connecticut beginning this fall," according to the Massaro blog on Bethwood Patch.

The service member at Massaro Farm will work with farm staff and mainly work with Woodbridge's Ansonia neighbors.

And speaking of neighbors, Massaro Farm staff thanked Griffin Hospital's Prevention Research Center and Jones Family Farms, noting that they wouldn't be able to partake in the program without them.

To learn more about Massaro Farm and Foodcorps, visit the farm's blog on Bethwood Patch and click "get email updates."