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Cinnaminson
Edison High School
Atlantic County
Hopewell District

• Thanks to Dorothy Mullen and the Riverside School Community in Princeton for hosting a wonderful tour of the Riverside School Garden. Check out some of the pictures on the NJ Department of Agriculture’s Facebook page here.

• View pictures from the September 27 apple contest at West Windsor Plainsboro’s Village Elementary School  here. Thanks to all the folks who attended to make Golden Delicious come out the winner ahead of Red Delicious and Macintosh!

• Thanks to Jersey City Public School #17 for a fantastic cooking contest featuring sweet potato salad, pasta pesto and blueberry crumble. Judges consisted of “culinary ambassadors” (pictured above) who tasted all three recipes and voted for their favorite.

• Thanks also to Vineland’s Sabater Elementary School that hosted Friday’s Farm to School visit with the folks from Rutgers Food Innovation Center. View photos of both days at our Facebook page here. Read about the Vineland Farm to School event (pictured above) here. Above, students take samples of Jersey Fresh Eggplant Rollatine made from Flaim Farms eggplant from Food Service Director Keith Nocco.

A special thank you to the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Division and Jersey Fresh Program for organizing these inaugural events. Pictured here, NJDA Secretary Doug Fisher addressing students and guests at Sabater Elementary School in Vineland.