FNS Documents & Resources

Tribal communities are growing gardens of all forms from medicinal gardens and small community gardens to larger food production gardens to school gardens. This fact sheet primarily focuses on tribal school gardens.

This fact sheet explores how schools and tribes are integrating traditional foods into child nutrition programs.

This fact sheet will assist Extension professionals in getting involved with farm to school. 

This fact sheet, Research Shows Farm to School Works, reviews the USDA 2015 Farm to School Census.

OCFS seeks to increase the availability of local foods in child nutrition programs, promote hands-on learning activities such as gardening, farm visits, and culinary classes, and encourage the integration of food related education into regular, standards-based curriculum to help children make lifelong healthy eating choices. 

This Geographic Preference fact sheet reviews the topic of geographic preference and how it can be used to purchase local foods.

The SNAP Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program Interim Rule was published in the Federal Register on April 5, 2013

Time line of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)