Farm To College Networking WEST CHESTER (Chester Co.) Have you heard about the “Farm to College” movement? Colleges and Universities across the nation are looking to local farmers to supply fresh, locally raised products for use in campus din ing halls. Ever wondered how these kinds of projects get started? At tend Southeast Regional Farm to College Networking Session to team more. On Tuesday, December 9 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., PASA (PA Assoc, for Sustainable Ag) will be hosting a southeast regional Farm to Col lege meeting at West Chester University’s Graduate Business Center. Food service directors from the nine-county southeast regions have been invited to meet farmers in the area who might be able to supply a college with fresh, local products. Producers of dairy, meat, produce, or value-added products, are all welcome. Though this meeting is primarily an opportunity for food service di rectors and farmers to network, others who may be able to influence a college or university food service purchasing decisions are also wel come to attend. This includes students, professors and citizens with connections to area colleges or universities. The session will not be ad dressing the K-12 school lunch program. Farmers interested in supplying the college market should keep these general considerations in mind: Most food services will require a minimum $2 million in liability insurance coverage, some will require more. Food services interested in local purchasing tend to be willing to substitute a product they are currently using for one purchased local ly. For example, most would consider switching from California toma toes to Pennsylvania tomatoes. However, many will hesitate to try something radically different, like offering water buffalo milk for breakfast. 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For the years of hunting in our family, when the men took to the woods, it meant the women ran the farm. Before the sun could peek its shiny head above the horizon, we started out to the bam. My sister was the main girl in charge, and I was her side kick. We started with milking. That was an easy task to do in the dark and a very important one at that. Milking our 100 head of cattle seemed a little more challenging because if anything went wrong, we didn’t have dad or my brother to come fix it. We made sure the cooler was on in the milk house and si lently hoped nothing would go ■^at Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 29, 2003-B7 wrong while the women were in charge. The next thing to do was feed the cows. This was also challeng ing, because although we milked often, feeding cows was my brother’s job and he rarely needed our help. We were given detailed instructions before the men left as to how much hayiage, grain, and silage was needed in the feed mixture. With that done, the most diffi cult task was next. We had to drive the tractor into the bam around sharp comers and unload feed into the cows trough. Al though it may not sound hard, I found it very challenging I got the tractor stuck in the bam once, but my sister was able to bale me out. I was quite thankful I didn’t take the bam down when the women were in charge. With the cows milked and fed, the two biggest tasks were com plete. My sister had to walk the chicken house and pickup the dead chickens and make sure they were getting fed. We had to make sure there were no cows starting into labor, feed the calves at the home farm and the rented farms, scrape the free stall bam, and straw the cows. After this was all complete it felt as though we had put a whole days work in, but is was only lunch time. In only a few hours we would have to start all over again. I was glad that hunting season only came once a year, because life was a lot harder when the women were in charge. 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