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. Chapel Hill Carroboro City Schools, with consultation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, will augment the Home Base curriculum with lessons on menu planning as well as communication skills to help child nutrition service staff to encourage healthy eating among students and provide items that use locally sourced foods through the North Carolina Farm to School Program and/or direct purchasing. Our partnering schools can choose to participate in one or all of our activities that address known barriers to successful implementation of farm to school programs.