School Cafeterias

District of Columbia Harvest of the Month Program

Through funding from the 2014 USDA Farm to School Grant, OSSE created a Harvest of the Month Program to pilot a more intense farm to school involvement in 15 schools across the District. The purpose of this program was to promote regional foods for school meals; integrate complementary farm and garden based nutrition education; and leverage partnerships with existing organizations.

Sarasota County Schools Farm to School

Sarasota County Schools Food and Nutrition Services established one of the first comprehensive Farm to School programs in the state of Florida in 2006. Our program follows the motto of "We Feed the Future" and provides food services and nutrition education to 42,000 students in 54 schools. In order to best feed our students and support our community, we prioritize purchasing from local farms and growing our school based gardens.

Farm Fresh Rhode Island

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: With funding from the USDA Farm to School Program, Farm Fresh Rhode Island’s Farm to School Project will pilot the use of fresh‐frozen local produce in public school districts. The farm to school project will enact this pilot in partnership with the Central Falls, Newport and Providence School Districts, in collaboration with the Rhode Island Training School, where the blast freezing program will be located.

Durango School District 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: This project will take an existing space within the Durango School District and repurpose it into an aggregation center that will service the Durango School District and four surrounding districts. It will allow access to more nutritious, locally grown foods in meals, allow for larger purchases of local foods, and allow for greater control in inventory, food safety, and trackback.

Concrete School District Farm to School Program

The mission of Concrete Farm to School is to build resilient students and families by providing access to healthy local foods, nutrition and culinary education, and hands-on gardening activities in the cafeteria, classroom, and community.

Heirloom Lunchroom

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Children's Home Association of Illinois, which operates a private, not for profit K‐12 school, will implement a farm to school program to benefit 200 students across two campuses that are served by the National School Lunch Program. Nearly 70% of the students receive free/reduced price breakfast and lunch and medical records indicate 59% of students are overweight or obese.

Chesapeake Public Schools 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: Chesapeake Public Schools has partnered with Five Points Community Farm Market in an effort to incorporate more fresh locally grown foods into our menus. Chesapeake Public Schools already has many necessary resources in place to begin planning a farm to school program.

The Home Base 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: The goal of this Farm to School Implementation proposal is to fully develop the Home Base Together Achieving Good Grub Education and Development (TAGGED) curriculum, manual, and train‐the trainer classes in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools, and to work with a sample of North Carolina public schools (urban and rural) to facilitate the use of more locally grown foods in schools by building school cafeteria infrastructure and human capital in the child nutrition staff.

Boulder Valley School District 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: Boulder Valley School District will undertake an intensive marketing and education program aimed at a 20% increase in consumption of locally‐sourced natural foods, particularly fruits and vegetables, in our school meals. We aim to increase local purchasing to 46% of the annual food service budget.

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