BRUNSWICK — Adam Williams and Leah Heyman’s cross-country bicycle trip to explore the growing local food movement has yet to leave Brunswick, but the team is already halfway to its fundraising goal.

“We’re at about 55 percent of the goal,” Williams told The Times Record on Thursday.

That’s $5,500 of $10,000 Williams plans to use to buy food from local farms for Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at making school lunches more healthful.

“If you’re a kid in Brunswick, you have access to some of the best food in the world,” Williams, who attended Brunswick schools, told The Times Record in March, “but you wouldn’t know that by looking at a school lunch.”

The goal of the cross-country bike trek, Williams said, is to “be able to document and find people who are driving this emerging push for nutritional reform.”

To kick off the cross-country tour, Williams said any riders are welcome to join FoodCycle for any portion of the first leg of the trip, which will leave from the summer farmers market at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick on Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

Williams said riders will travel down Pleasant Hill Road to Freeport, then take Route 1 south through to Monument Square in Portland.

Williams said riders joining the group must wear a helmet and should bring snacks and water sufficient for the stretch they plan to bike.

“Anyone can come and ride for a mile or 10 or the whole way,” Williams said.

For more information about the organization for regular updates from the road, visit www.foodcycleus.com.

dfishell@timesrecord.com