When students return to California’s Sausalito Marin City School District later this month, they will find something different about their meals. The district will become the first US school district to provide meals that are 100 percent organic and non-GMO.
According to market researcher Packaged Facts, the sustainably sourced meals will extend to breakfast, lunch, and snacks served to the more than 500 students attending the district's Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy and Willow Creek Academy. The meals will be prepared on-site through The Conscious Kitchen, a program that partners with schools, guiding them to implement food programs based on five foundational terms: fresh, local, organic, seasonal, non-GMO.