Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/imagination-and-determination/5022938/
Erin Trenbeath-Murray recently acquired a farm. Or rather, Salt Lake Community Action Program (CAP) and Head Start, where she’s the CEO, acquired a farm. The farm appears to be the culmination of years of efforts to better serve the Salt Lake community, but it would be wrong to imagine that the work of the team at Salt Lake CAP is ever done.
About six years ago, Trenbeath-Murray realized that her program met an acceptable minimum threshold for one of the required Head Start standards, but she and her staff believed they could do even better. In her case, the issue at hand was what they were feeding children. While the food at Salt Lake Head Start met children’s nutritional needs, Trenbeath-Murray had a vision for what she knew was the best and healthiest her program could be offering: food prepared in-house at a central kitchen from locally-sourced ingredients, always whole grain, organic when they could afford it, and no canned fruits. She also wanted the food prepared and kept hot, and served on reusable dishes to reduce waste.
When she brought the vision to companies that delivered bulk, reheated, individually packaged meals, they told her she ...