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Resource | Factsheets School Gardens: Using Gardens to Grow Healthy Habits in Cafeterias, Classrooms and Communities

This fact sheet reviews school farms spanning acres in Minnesota, indoor tower gardens in Vermont, raised beds in New York City, aquaponic systems in the Virgin Islands, and native food gardens in tribal communities.

03/06/2023
Resource | Factsheets Selling Local Food to Schools: A Resource for Producers

This factsheet reviews best practices for producers to learn about how to sell local food to schools.

03/14/2023
Basic page FNS Partnerships
08/01/2023
Resource | Factsheets Bringing Tribal Foods and Traditions into Cafeterias, Classrooms, and Gardens

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

12/14/2017
Resource | Technical Assistance USDA Foods: A Resource for Maximizing Food Budgets To Buy Local

This factsheet explains how USDA Foods support the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the school meal pattern requirements to make it easier for schools to prepare healthy meals using local foods.

03/06/2023
Resource | Infographics USDA Office of Community Food Systems

A community food system is one in which food production, processing, distribution, and consumption are geographically integrated and benefit the environment, economy, and social and nutritional health of a particular community.

10/04/2017
Resource | Technical Assistance USDA DoD Fresh Program: A Source for Locally Grown Produce

This fact sheet provides information on how to use USDA DoD Fresh to purchase local produce.

03/06/2023
Resource | Training and Outreach Schools, PTAs,Parents of School-Aged Children
04/24/2013
Resource | Training and Outreach Fruits and Vegetables Messages and Tools for Kids
03/12/2013
Resource | Research and Data | Food Security Household Food Security in the United States, 1995-97: Technical Issues and Statistical Report

This is the final report for the project, "Analysis of the Current Population Survey Data for Food Security and Hunger Measurement" conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 

12/01/2001
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