Our neighborhood elementary school has a grant to provide fresh fruit  for this school year.

I can’t think of a more welcoming sight than being greeted every morning by this bounty; free and available to all.  And while you can’t see it in the photo, there is a sign on the table indicating which recycling bin is for the melon clam shells.

We take a lot of flack for our lack of ethnic diversity during the presidential primary, but the truth is, here in Concord New Hampshire, our public schools draw children from across the economic spectrum.  Without this program, I wonder how many children at our school would have access to an ever changing variety of fresh fruit.

How great would it be if a table like this were the norm in every school in our great country?