Helps applicants understand the components of a complete application, grant eligibility, funding priorities, and grant objectives.
These tips will help you to complete the Turnip the Beet nomination packet.
This page is a resource that will help you decide if the fiscal year 2026 Patrick Leahy Farm to School grant is right for your project by providing an overview of the purpose, eligibility, and other key information. This does not serve as a replacement for the Request for Applications. Carefully and completely review the full RFA and associated documents for detailed information about the application components and required documents for submission.
This page describes the main changes for the fiscal year 2026 Patrick Leahy Farm to School grant compared to the past two grant years. We do not describe every change. Applicants should carefully read the entire Request for Applications prior to applying.
Getting started applying to the Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program.
Please refer to the request for application for more detailed information.
This collection is a revision of a currently approved collection for state administrative expense funds expended in the operation of the child nutrition programs administered under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
This notice announces the national average value of donated foods or, where applicable, cash in lieu of donated foods, to be provided in school year 2026 (July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026) for each lunch served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, and for each lunch and supper served by institutions participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
In alignment with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ priorities to encourage healthy choices, healthy outcomes, and healthy families and connect America’s farmers to nutrition assistance programs, we are revising the CSFP Maximum Monthly Distribution Rates to reflect the foods currently available in the program.
USDA has rescinded the Biden Administration’s May 2022 Bostock policy update that sought to require federally-funded food and nutrition service programs to redefine discrimination by reason of “sex” under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 as not based on just male or female, but also “gender identity.” Today’s guidance eliminates the illegal threats issued under the Biden Administration that mandated compliance with ever-evolving concepts of gender ideology as a condition for participation in USDA school programs.