This year Chimacum & Port Townsend Schools celebrated Taste Washington Day during the week of October 5th. During this special week kids all around the State sat down to school lunches, or opened grab & go lunch bags, filled with foods from local farms. Taste Washington is a program of WSDA to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the connections happening between kids, families, and their community food systems.

Port Townsend students had local spinach in their pasta salad, as well as a local green salad. All veggies came from Red Dog Farm. They also served gleaned apples from Jefferson County and milk from Washington dairies.

Chimacum served breakfast parfaits made with local blueberries from SpringRain Farm, roasted root vegetables from Red Dog, pumpkin bars made with SpringRain eggs and wheat grown and milled by Finnriver, and milk from Washington dairies.

While Taste Washington Day is a special event celebrated by schools across the State, our Food Service Superheroes have been working hard to make sure local students eat fresh, nutritious, locally grown food in their meals every week!