Transcript Farm to School West Virginia Department of Education Office of Child Nutrition.

Farm to School
West Virginia Department of Education
Office of Child Nutrition
What is Farm to School?
• Bringing Local Food to Schools
• It can be picked at the peak of ripeness and so
improves school food quality.
• Local food connects students to the season, their
locale, and their community.
• Local food is a platform for education, nutrition,
health, agriculture and gardening education, and
economics.
• Good for local farmers and the community.
Clay County
What is the Office of Child Nutrition Doing?
• Working with Food Service Directors to help them access
locally grown food and tracking their purchases.
• Getting Ag Ed involved with Food Service Directors and
cafeterias through the CTG: Farm to School Grant.
• Team Nutrition Grants to help schools start growing that
might not have an Ag Ed program.
• Providing assistance to Food Service Directors with
AmeriCorps members working on nutrition education, local
food education, and school gardens.
• Working with Extension to reach local farmers with
information on how to work with schools.
• Providing cooks with training to promote cooking from
scratch.
• Working with various non-profits on food education projects.
Greenbrier County
West Virginia Department of Education, Office of Child Nutrition
Farm to School in West Virginia 2012 – 2013
Hampshire County
F2S Community Development Group Model
• The Office of Child Nutrition (OCN) works with a group of
partners self titled the WV Farm to School Community
Development Group which is a model for the type of
support group that could form in each county to work on
Farm to School together.
• Composed of partners from the Office of Child Nutrition,
Office of Career, Technical and Agriculture Education, the
WVU Small Farm Center, WV Dept. of Agriculture,
Collaborative for the 21st Century Appalachia, and the New
Appalachian Farm and Research Center.
• On the county level it could the Food Service Director,
Agriculture Education Instructor, Extension Agent, a local
farmer, and possibly other community members from key
organizations.
Mineral County
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Resources to get Started with Farm to
School:
Contact us with your ideas for your locale.
OCN Farm to School website, coming soon.
From Scratch Training for school cooks.
OCN’s CTG: Farm to School Grant
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/dig_
in.html
• www.vtfeed.org