May 2009
63 posts
Farm to School Programs: a lesson in win-win... →
Farm to School Programs: a lesson in win-win relationships
We Like It Raw - Raw Food Goodness: Nine-year-old... →
Nine-year-old Olivia is a cancer survivor and she is on a mission to find out, What is Real Food? She takes us to the Farmer’s Market and to her school. The video has been entered in a “Real Food is” video contest for the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference. It’s all about getting fresh, locally-grown food into schools. Learn more at farmtoschool.org
Veggie Fact Sheets from the New Hampshire Farm to... →
NH Farm to School has just posted 4 new Spring Vegetable Fact Sheets on the “Resources” page of their website: www.nhfarmtoschool.org
“With school districts constantly feeling their budgets squeezed, the expense of...”
– Foodservice News: The News and Information source for restaurant and hospitality business in the Midwest
Learn more about 'Farm to School' →
Learn what the N.E. Wisconsin Farm To School Initiative is all about
City Club of Corvallis: June 8th: Don’t Carrots... →
Your school meals « Citizen Aden →
Your school meals
Kids and Gardening: Getting Dirty Pays →
f you have neither the time, inclination, space, nor money to grow food at home, consider lobbying for a Farm to School program as described in Cooking Up a Story’s conversation with Marion Kalb (Farm To School: A Conversation with Marion Kalb) or exploring the programs and data at kidsgardening.org.
“Michael Pollan: “Don’t buy any food you’ve seen advertised”
– Michael Pollan: “Don’t buy any food you’ve seen advertised” « Farms and Fields Project at Virginia Tech
Spring Farm Tour | Freshman Farmer - New Organic... →
Sustainable Food in NC | BlueNC →
La Vida Locavore:: Back to the Future of Food In... →
nother great benefit would of course be expanded local options for Farm-to-School programs, especially in states where the school year and the growing seasons are for the most part mutually exclusive -
I Wish They All Would Keep California Fruits →
Vermont’s new small farms are leading the way to a... →
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inDECATUR: Mixed opinions on "Farm to School" at... →
Mixed opinions on “Farm to School” at CDC hearing
Drought, fish, and our fruit-and-veg problem |... →
So let’s review. Our nation’s fruit-and-vegetable basket is extremely vulnerable to drought—and as a matter of course is wiping out a once-vibrant coastal ecosystem. Moreover, after produce is harvested there, it gets hauled in gas-guzzling refrigerated trucks to points across the continent—often right past farmland perfectly suited to fruit and veg production.
“Benefits of Farm-to-School Projects, Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for School Children. “
“Regulating what kids can eat or drink at school is a safety issue, akin to...”
– Healthy School Food | Chef Ann Cooper : Renegade Lunch Lady
231 Sycamore St.: Farm to School Hearing with U.S.... →
Farm to School Hearing with U.S. Senators Saxby Chambliss and Tom Harkin, Friday, May 15, at CDC
“At a hearing before a Ways and Means subcommittee, backers brought forward a...”
– Backers laud benefits of farm-to-school bill
Michelle Obama and the Muppets Tackle Childhood... →
n September, 2008, Takoma Park Middle School students celebrated their first “Homegrown School Lunch Week.”
Iowa Ag Connection - Senate Ag Committee to... →
Senate Ag Committee to Explore Benefits of Farm-to-School Programs
Michigan Farm To School - Blog: New info from MDE... →
Also, Michigan Department of Agriculture recently released a “Buying Local – Approved Food Sources for Food Establishments” fact sheet. The fact sheet is attached and available at the Michigan Farm to School website.
New Jersey Life: Here's a Concept: School Gardens... →
Here’s a Concept: School Gardens in the Garden State
“School kids are eating strawberries from NC farms this month.”
– Local Strawberries in NC Schools « Eating in Raleigh, NC
Local food offers taste of the good old days -... →
To make it easier for school lunch programs to connect with local economies, the Oregon Legislature in 2007 created the Farm to School program. More legislation, which would build on this program by allocating lottery money to schools to help them enrich their food programs with good locally grown food while supporting local economies, is under consideration.
La Vida Locavore:: School Lunch Sampler Platter →
School Lunch Sampler Platter
FoodieTots.com » Blog Archive » White House... →
White House Organic Garden to Feed Local School Kids
“Oklahoma had the highest growth in direct farm sales in the nation from 2002 to...”
– Red State Green » Blog Archive » We’re number one!
7 Generations Greenness Charter School →
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Smart Living Project: Economic benefits of local... →
Bills, bills, bills! « Sustainable Food Center →
Thank you to everyone who attended this week’s hearings to support state Farm to School bills SB 1027 and HB 1840 relating to the establishment of an interagency farm-to-school coordination task force. Although the bills are currently still in committe they may be tracked via: www.capitol.state.tx.us
“I just heard about a cool program called Farm to School that basically does the...”
– scarcity and abundance: Combatting Shelf Reliance
Michigan Farm to School News →
Michigan Farm to School News
tsheppardjz - Love Mom-In-Chief →
Love Mom-In-Chief
“You get a face, you get a place, you get the name of a farm,” says...”
– Bend Weekly News for Bend Oregon
Ask the Ethicurean: How do I work to change the... →
There is a farm-to-school DC team developing right now.
