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Maryland Joins Effort to Put Local Food in School Cafeterias DELMAR, Md. - The strawberries just turning red on one Eastern Shore field here could end up on plates almost anywhere -- except on cafeteria trays just down the road. That's because schools aren't set up to accept local produce, leading to a Byzantine national food distribution grid where apples from Maryland end up in schools in South Carolina but aren't served in local ones. "The trouble is that major school systems, to get what they want, they deal with a wholesaler. They want a one-stop shop," Wicomico County farmer Patrick Hochmuth said.

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Maryland Joins Effort to Put Local Food in School Cafeterias

DELMAR, Md. - The strawberries just turning red on one Eastern Shore field here could end up on plates almost anywhere -- except on cafeteria trays just down the road.

That's because schools aren't set up to accept local produce, leading to a Byzantine national food distribution grid where apples from Maryland end up in schools in South Carolina but aren't served in local ones.

"The trouble is that major school systems, to get what they want, they deal with a wholesaler. They want a one-stop shop," Wicomico County farmer Patrick Hochmuth said.