Pictured are four steers being delivered to Tippecanoe Valley High School for use in the school’s Farm-To-Fork program. Dale Miller raises cattle on his farm near Claypool and sold the steers to the school at a discounted price. He spent his entire life around agriculture and wanted to be involved with the program as soon as he heard about it, according to a news release from Tippecanoe Valley School Corp. The Farm-To-Fork initiative started as an idea in a political economic studies class about how to put a better quality meal on school cafeteria tables. The idea eventually turned into a plan to raise calves on school grounds, process the meat, and then use the meat in school lunches. Curriculum will be designed around the program for a variety of subjects. Community partnerships and grant money will be looked at to sustain Farm-to-Fork in the future, the release states.
