School Cafeterias

Super Sprowtz

Our mission is to use the educational power of media to help children learn about nutrition and wellness. Our program seamlessly integrates a proven curriculum that addresses children’s critical developmental needs around nutrition education with an exciting multi-media approach. Our ultimate goal is to make it fun for the whole family! - See more at: http://supersprowtz.com/about/#sthash.ETmCj08N.dpuf

Peabody Charter School Cafeteria

Peabody Charter School Cafeteria has operated a cook from scratch cafeteria for nearly 20 years with a menu that empahsizes whole grains and local, fresh poduce.  We facilitate classroom coooking projects, after school cooking classes and family dinners.  Our school gardens offer lots of hands on experiences for children to dig in the dirt and cook what they grow.  Several times a year we host Celebrity Chef lunches.  A local chef plans a menu that meets the requirements of the National School Lunch Program and then supervises our kitchen staff in preparing and serving the meal to students,

Pilot Light

Mission
Pilot Light’s mission is to support teachers in creating food-based classroom lessons that support children with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills they need to have healthy relationships with food. To do that, Pilot Light has developed a cohesive model for classroom food education, incorporating food as a lens for traditional subjects, such as Math, Reading, History, and Science in K-12 classrooms.

Wolsey-Washington School Farm to School Program

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Wolsey‐Wessington Public School District’s farm to school project will benefit 310 students in a rural and remote school district in central South Dakota. Forty-nine percent of our students are overweight or obese according to the 2012 SD Health Data, and over 44% receive free or reduced lunch. The district has no experience in local food procurement but is anxious to begin the process.

re:TH!NK, Winnebago County Farm to School Project

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: “re:TH!NK,” a healthy living coalition in the state of Wisconsin and a program of the Winnebago County Health Department, will support farm to school programs in three participating school districts through freezing of local produce for use in school lunches, promoting healthy eating through various farm to school activities, events, and programs, and establishing the framework for the development of a self‐sustaining system to manage the procurement of locally‐grown food fo

Food for Navajo Schools Project

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: The “Food for Navajo Schools Project” will create a comprehensive farm to school implementation plan to provide a culturally relevant model for the 224 schools in the Navajo Nation. This plan will identify local or regional product availability and take steps required to integrate local and regional products, including produce from school gardens, into school meals.

School of Philadelphia Eat Fresh Here

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: The School District of Philadelphia Eat Fresh Here project will freeze local seasonal produce during the months of June and July so that it can be used during the winter months when such produce is not locally available. Produce will be frozen at a central location and maintained in freezers in two to three locations. The first year of the project will be a pilot focused on one product, such as blueberries, for two schools.

Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Successful implementation of this proposed project will result in the institutionalization of a farm to school program; increased knowledge as a result of information dissemination efforts, regional conferences, and educational booths at local farmers’ markets; and, an increase of at least five school districts (over a current baseline of zero) utilizing small to mid-sized Mississippi farmers for fruit and vegetable purchases.

Rural Southwest Virginia Farm to School Program

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: A combination of project activities will expand the existing network and programs to all schools in Floyd County, Virginia, and develop and implement promotional campaigns in support of farm to school initiatives while creating a model for rural communities that face particular challenges in food procurement and experiential food‐based education.

Springfield Public Schools Farm to School Program

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Our farm to school enhancement project seeks to increase Springfield Public School students’ access to and understanding of the need for nutritious foods. The first part of the project will focus on increasing purchase of fresh, regionally grown, minimally processed produce for students’ consumption from the current 12% to 20% of total annual food costs.

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