Farm to School Guides and Information:

Connecting local farms with school feeding programs is a growing phenomenon - particularly in the US - and there are lots of great resources to get us all thinking in creative ways about how to reinforce.

ATTRA Appropriate technology transfer for rural areas Publication: Bringing Local Food to Local People: A Resource Guide for Farm-to-School and Farm-to-Institution Programs
attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/farmtoschool.pdf

Azuma, A. M. and Fisher, A. Healthy Farms, Healthy Kids: Evaluating the Barriers and Opportunities for Farm-to-School Programs. Community Food Security Coalition, January 2001. Executive summary on-line at www.foodsecurity.org Order by e-mailing asfisher@aol.com, or by calling (310) 822-5410, or faxing (310) 822-1440.

Cornell University Farm to School Program
www.cce.cornell.edu/farmtoschool/

Farm Fresh Start: A Guide to Increasing the Consumption of Local Produce in the School Lunch Program. The Hartford Food System, 509 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114
www.hartfordfood.org

Gottlieb. B. and Mascarenhas, M. The Farmers’ Market Salad Bar: Assessing the First Three Years of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Program. Occidental College Community Food Security Project, October 2000.departments.oxy.edu/uepi/cfj/resources/FTS-October2000.PDF

How Local Farmers and School Food Service Buyers are Building Alliances. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.
www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/mta_reports/localfarmers_school.htm

Innovative Marketing Opportunities for Small Farmers: Local Schools as Customers. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.
www.ams.usda.gov/directmarketing/publications.htm

Small Farmer Success Story. Marketing Fresh Produce to Local School: The North Florida Cooperative Experience. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.
www.ams.usda.gov/directmarketing/publications.htm

Small Farmer Success Story. Acquiring Capital and Establishing a Credit History: The North Florida Cooperative Experience. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/sfss-3.pdf

Small Farmer Success Story. Cultivating Schools as Customers in a Local Market: The New North Florida Cooperative. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/sfss-2.pdf

Small Farmer Success Story. Success of the New North Florida Cooperative: A Progress Report on Producer Direct Sales to School Districts. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.
www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/sfss-4.pdf

Small Farms/ School Meals Initiative Town Hall Meetings A Step-by Step Guide on How to Bring Small Farms and Local Schools Together. United States Dept. of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service.
www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/lunch/SmallFarms/small.pdf

Sobel, David. You Learn What You Eat: Cognition Meets Nutrition in Berkeley Schools. Orion Afield, Summer 2001.
www.oriononline.org/pages/oa/01-3oa/01-3oa_learn.html

Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist, an on-line and print resource contains the annotations for, and information on children's books that have a farm to table link. One of the 38 themes in our reference book is Farm to Table. There are close to 50 Farm to Table books on the list with books for children in grades PreK-3.
www.tn.fcs.msue.msu.edu