This document addresses common questions regarding the impact of the Act on school gardens and other similar small producers commonly used as sources for local food.

The USDA Grants and Loans that Support Farm to School Activities factsheet provides an overview of funding opportunities available to assist farms, schools, and every link in between in feeding kids healthy local meals; teaching them about food, farming and nutrition; and supporting local agricultural economies.

This factsheet highlights why summer meals are ripe for local foods and agriculture-based activities. 

This fact sheet discusses how farm to school isn’t just for K-12 institutions; an increasing number of early child care and education providers are engaging in farm to preschool activities.

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.

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.