Farm to College Innovation Highlight: Welcome to the Meals Miles Mission

Behind this venture is Alisha Corridor, Dodge County’s College Vitamin Director. With the chance to interview Alisha, we received an inside perspective of the relationships, advantages, and connections behind the Meals Miles Mission, asking questions relating to the planning and course of that introduced this venture to life.    

In 2024, the place many cafeteria meals are heat-and-serve, Alisha observed there’s ceaselessly a missed connection between college students’ understanding of the place their meals comes from and the appreciation of the laborious work that goes into placing meals on the desk, beginning with the farmers. Alisha determined to develop the Meals Miles Mission, which provided college students a possibility to go to native farms. These college students got behind-the-scenes excursions of farm operations for them to study meals manufacturing and careers associated to agriculture and improve their publicity to regionally grown commodities.   

Alisha held an software course of for college students to use for this system in the event that they have been concerned about studying extra about agriculture and farm-to-table. Twenty-four college students utilized and have been a part of the Meals Miles Mission – a faculty bus journey to native farms, experiencing how far the meals travels to get to their plate