BVSD’s School Food Project was recently honored with a “Snail of Approval” award from Slow Food Boulder County, the local branch of a national organization which recognizes food and beverage businesses that practice the organization’s values of “good, clean and fair food for all.”

At the School Food Project’s central kitchen, vegetable peels and trimmings are transformed through vermicomposting, where worms turn food scraps into nutrient-rich compost. Instead of becoming waste, these scraps support a sustainable, closed-loop food system right here in our district. As Head Chef Yuri Sanow shares, “Under the right conditions, composting worms can process up to half their body weight in organic matter!”