Rapp’s ‘real foods’ rap video
“Keep It Fresh – the Real Foods Rap” is a short, sweet and smile-inducing music video by a few dozen students and young-at-heart grownups associated with Rappahannock County Public Schools’ Farm- To- Table program and nutrition services department – and you’ll just have to visit YouTube immediately to see it (search for “keep it fresh real foods rap”). Chief instigator Trista Grigsby, director of nutrition services for RCPS and former head of the Farm to Table program offered by the school division and Headwaters Foundation, credits the dozen rapping, dancing F2T sixth- and seventhgraders, eight adults (including first-time rapper Grigsby herself and toe-tapping food service worker Betty Lu Koplaski) and assorted passersby and volunteers for making the on-again, off-again project so much fun.
The video – shot last October by Jennings Hobson and Andrew Grigsby, edited by Hobson and with music recording and songwriting help from local-music star Noah Waggener – is meant “to show that our school food is delicious, nutritious, student-grown and locally grown when possible, and that we are excited about vegetables and fruits on our plates!” We don’t have room here to credit everyone, but the complete credits follow a shot where student Miguel Lorenzo- Day, rapping in a field at Waterpenny Farm, holds up a familiar red root vegetable as the camera zooms in, and asks: “Do you like the beet?”
We do.