Notebook made possible by a grant through the Conservation Fund’s Resourceful Communities Program

Table of Contents

GENERAL FARM TO SCHOOL INFORMATION

• National Farm to School Network
• First Organizing Meeting (Community Food Security Coalition)
• Defining Success in the Farm to School Arena (ASAP research)
• Barriers to starting and maintaining farm to school programs (National Farm to School Network)
• Farm to school resources

FARMERS/CHILD NUTRITION DIRECTORS/MARKETING

• Building Purchasing Relationships with a School Food Service (Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch)
• Child Nutrition Services vs. School Food Service (Eat Smart: Recommended Standards for All Foods Available in Schools)
• The Paradox of Hunger and Obesity in America (Center on Hunger and Poverty)
• Eat Local and You: (ASAP)
• Connecting Farm to School with Local Food Campaigns

POLICY

• Tools for Promoting Local Purchasing and Farm to School Activites: Model Wellness Policy Language for Schools (Community Food Security Coalition)
• Making the Case for Farm to School (National Farm to School Network)
• Income Guidelines and Reimbursement Rates for the Federal Child Nutrition Programs (Food Research and Action Center)

EDUCATION

• Growing Minds Approach to Nutrition Education (ASAP)
• Ways to Encourage Children to Have Positive Attitudes Toward Food (Healthy Heart Snack Choices- Cornell Cooperative Extension)
• Connecting with Curriculum (ASAP)
• Local Pumpkin Apple Soup Recipe (ASAP)
• Reasons Why Teachers/Parents/Schools Should Consider a School Garden Project (ASAP)
• Literacy Beds (ASAP)
• Number Salad: An adapted, integrated lesson plan for K-2 (Patti Evens/ASAP)
• School Garden/Outdoor Classrooms Learning Integration (ASAP)
• Curriculum Connections Visual (Vicki Greenhouse)
• Growing Minds' Favorite Children's Literature: K-5 (ASAP)
• Children's Books: Farm Field Trips (ASAP)
• What's in Season? North Carolina Fruit and Vegetable Availability (NCDA)

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“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life…”

-Rachel Carson,

The Sense of Wonder