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When a farmer at Cold Spring Farm held up a garlic bulb and explained how to grow the plant, one of the 10-year-olds visiting the Colchester farm asked if they could eat it like an apple. When the farmer showed them how to grow a potato, another kid shouted “I love McDonald’s!” As the group of Middletown fourth grade students began to garden, one child screamed that he got dirt in his eye, while one of the girls showed off that the garlic plant she was inspecting was healthy. “It’s like a little baby,” she said excitedly.

The Farm to School program aims to help CT students learn about fresh foods through experience in school gardens and field trips to farms.

The local food incentive program would help decrease the cost barrier and facilitate new local items in school meals programs.

Plan to expand child tax credit offers hope along with direct payments Cloe Poisson :: C-HIT.ORG Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8 and Zakai Morton, 5 (twin brother) (l-r) near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, When her car started making a noise more than a year ago, Chinara Johnson parked the vehicle and hasn’t used it since. As a New Haven mother of 5-year-old twin boys, one of whom is on the autism spectrum, and an 8-year-old daughter, Johnson doesn’t have the money to get the car running properly again. She also didn’t h...