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CISA's
Farm to School Project
CISA
encourages efforts that connect children with locally grown
food and farms, including school gardens, farm-to-cafeteria
programs, field trips to farms, and curricular activities focused
on food and farming. CISA staff work with parents, teachers,
and school staff and administrators to support these efforts.
CISA
Farm to School eNewsletter
CISA releases a quarterly email newsletter containing
information on farm to school initiatives across the region
and the country. The newsletter is packed with stories about
local efforts to incorporate agriculture into schools through
cafeteria programs, school gardens, and ag-related curricula.
Click
here to view the newsletter archives. To subscribe to the
newsletter, please email Claire
Morenon.
Massachusetts Farm to School Resource Guide
Farm
to school initiatives have been under way in Massachusetts for
several years, but as the movement has grown, demand has outstripped
the support available to farmers and schools. Therefore, in
2007 and 2008, the Massachusetts Farm to School Project, CISA,
and SEMAP (Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership),
collaborated on a “Train the Trainers” workshop
series to offer intensive, pragmatic training designed to prepare
more community-based agricultural professionals and others to
help farmers decide if and how to sell to schools.
The information gathered through these workshops has been compiled
in the Massachusetts Farm to Cafeteria Resource Guide. It contains
information on relationship-building, state and municipal procurement
policies, the federal School Lunch Program, food safety, and
local and regional farm to school resources. The
resource guide can be downloaded for free here.
This program is funded in part by:
Community
Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Seeds
of Solidarity Education Center
Frank Stanley
Beveridge Foundation
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