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. The second part of the project will enhance the agricultural education framework and provide for increased experiential learning opportunities to create more informed and healthier future consumers, with an increase in the number of students impacted from the current 1.4% to 60.6%.