A #Ford fleet helps provide nutrition for little bodies and little minds.https://t.co/iXCA5xexZ2
— Ford Motor Company (@Ford) May 25, 2016
The area surrounding Jamestown, NY is chock-full of farmland -- sprawling acres upon acres of hay, corn, and other vegetables. Things looks a little bit different in Ford Motor Company's home city of Detroit.
Many Detroit neighborhoods are considered "food deserts," places where it is near-impossible to find fresh, nutritious produce. This is a problem for everyone, but especially for students. You know that five-o-clock feeling, when it's been too long since you had lunch, and all you can think about is food. You feel unfocused, irritable, and so impulsive you might buy every package of Oreos in the grocery store.
When you're a student, just starting out in your academic career which will lay the foundations of the rest of your life, you can't afford to have a grumbling stomach in class.
To help students succeed, Detroit Public Schools now engage in a Farm to School initiative, where fresh crops are grown in raised-bed gardens and a 4-acre production farm in the heart of the city, and delivered straight to school cafeterias.
Helping volunteers and employees handle farm work is the Ford F-150, and a whole fleet made up of Ford commercial trucks and vans.
"Ford and Detroit are synonymous with tough," says Zaundra Wimberley, Farm and Garden Program Director for Detroit Public Schools. "The F-150 is a tough truck, and Detroiters are tough, resilient people."
Contact Ed Shults Ford-Lincoln for more information on Ford work trucks, perfect for farm, garden, community projects, and more.