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.
Recently, we have received several questions about the use of funds from the nonprofit school food service account to cover expenditures related to farm to school activities and school gardens. The questions and answers below address specific scenarios that school food authorities may be dealing with when considering the allowability of such costs.