Local farmers provide beef for Florence ISD through TDA’s Farm Fresh Network

TROY, Texas (KWTX) - To give students quality school lunches, the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Farm Fresh program is connecting local farmers with nearby schools’ nutrition teams.

Through the Farm Fresh Program, Troy resident Karly Gilmore and her family, Gilmore Beef and Cattle, got connected with Florence ISD to provide fresh quality beef for school lunches.

As a teacher herself, Gilmore is happy to help local schools in the classroom as well as the lunchroom.

“I’m supplying them with good quality food every day in their cafeteria and that just makes me very proud,” Gilmore said.

Florence ISD’s Nutrition Director, Lillian Barnett, says that students have noticed the change in quality of their proteins.

“The kids like it when we post that we have local beef or local chicken, we’re a bunch of country kids so a lot of these kids are growing up on farms and ranches anyway,” Barnett notes. “So, it’s interesting to see the stuff that they grow have the ability to come straight into school.”

For more information about farm fresh network and participating farms and ranches, click here.

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