Local food, locally eaten: Kids’ lunchtime peaches, melons and carrots are all Montana grown

Kids may not know it, but they’ll be eating more Montana-grown fruits and vegetables this year in Missoula schools.

Melons from Dixon already made their debut on lunch trays. Peaches from Paradise got washed, halved and pitted.

“Those melons are so good and so flavorful,” says Wanda Braae, cook and cashier at Chief Charlo Elementary School.
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“And the peaches. Tasty.”

By MEA ANDREWS of the Missoulian

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