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Crunch in the Community!
Are you headed to the North Carolina State Fair, a county fair, farm tour, or farmer's market? You might just see the NC Crunch promotion as part of your visit.
The Farm to School Coalition of NC, NC Farm to Preschool Network, NC Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, NC Department of Public Instruction, and other partners are working to get NC Crunch information and resources out to farmers, farmers' market managers, fair organizers, and more community partners across the state. This might be an opportunity for school and community partners to collaborate for cross-promotion of agriculture and nutrition.
If you head to the North Carolina State Fair, visit the #NCCrunch station in the Got to Be NC pavilion. Also, make sure to visit the Field of Dreams exhibit where you will find the NC Farm to School Program Calendar Artwork on display. Snap a photo and share on social media using #FarmtoSchool and #NCCrunch. Tag @NCStateFair, @NCFarmtoSchool, @F2SCoalitionNC, @NCSchoolMeals, and @FarmtoPreschoolNetwork!
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North Carolina Child Nutrition Impacts: A Debrief Event for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
October 26, 2022 // 2:30 pm ET
Join the Carolina Hunger Initiative for a recap of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health (which was held on September 28, 2022), an overview of the work already being done to meet these goals in North Carolina, and how federal and state priorities might further impact our state. The Carolina Hunger Initiative team will share background, a summary, and video highlights from the conference. Mary Oxendine, Food Security Coordinator for Durham County, will provide her perspective as a North Carolina in-person attendee of the White House Conference. In addition, Dr. Lynn Harvey, Senior Director, Office of School Nutrition and Office of District Operations, NC Department of Public Instruction, will share thoughts about current efforts and the next steps going forward.
Register here.
White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Post-Conference Update
October 26, 2022 // 3:30 pm ET
Recordings of the plenary and panel sessions from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health are now available on the conference website. Work is underway to implement strategies and build off the momentum of the conference. Plan to participate in the first post-conference monthly update starting on Wednesday, October 26.
Register here.
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Centering Equity in the Garden
October 29, 2022 // 9 am - 4 pm ET
This in-person workshop, hosted by the NC School Garden Network, is about the intersection between abolitionist teaching and garden-based learning. All levels of experience (in education, in gardening) are encouraged to register, as we will be going over the basics of abolitionist teaching and garden-based learning. Both CEU credit and EE credit are available.
Learn more and register here.
Piedmont Community Garden Leadership Academy
November 12 & 19, 2022 // 9 am - 3 pm ET
Join North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University for a two-day leadership training for community gardeners who want to learn horticultural and community building skills to start and maintain a successful community garden. The registration is capped at 30 participants.
Register here.
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North Carolina Farm to School Training Initiative
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a two year, $219,458 grant to North Carolina Extension/North Carolina State University and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) to expand our online farm to school course into a Farm to School Collaborative Training Initiative (NCF2SCTI). If you are interested in learning further about the North Carolina Farm to School Training Initiative, please complete the form below.
Interest form here.
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Garden to Kitchen Blog
During the September farm spotlight, the Poe Center for Health Education interviewed Farm to School Coalition of NC co-chair Tracey Bates and Steering Committee member Remi Ham to showcase farm to school efforts in North Carolina.
Read more here.
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USDA Recipe Standardization Guide for School Nutrition Programs
The USDA Recipe Standardization Guide for School Nutrition programs is a "how-to" guide on recipe standardization for School Nutrition recipe developers. The guide is designed to be a complete source of information on recipe standardization from conception to implementation of a recipe.
Learn more here.
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From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals
Deadline: November 15, 2022
The primary goal of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals Program (NEXTGEN) is to enable 1890 institutions, 1994 institutions, Alaska Native-serving institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, Hispanic-serving institutions (specifically, the certified Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities (HSACUs)), and insular area institutions of higher education located in the U.S. territories to build and sustain the next generation of the food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences (FANH) workforce primarily through student scholarship support, paid internships, fellowships, and job opportunity matching, and facilitating pathways to employment in the federal sector.
Learn more here.
Food and Literacy Grant
Deadline: November 15, 2022
Food Literacy mini-grants will support food literacy & nutrition programming for North Carolina's public libraries. This opportunity will fund at least five $17,000 grants to public libraries to purchase mobile teaching kitchens, supplemental programming materials, and appropriate safety supplies.
Learn more here.
2023 Youth Garden Grant
Deadline: December 2, 2022
KidsGardening's Youth Garden Grant has supported school and youth educational garden projects since 1982. In early 2023, fifty organizations will be awarded $500 in funding and a collection of gardening supplies for their youth garden program. Among the fifty winners, ten programs will also receive a specialty award package.
Apply here.
USDA Farm to School Grant
Deadline: January 6, 2022
The United States Department of Agriculture will award up to $12 million in competitive grants to eligible entities through the Farm to School Grant Program in FY 2023. Each grant helps implement farm to school programs that increase access to local food in eligible schools, connect children with agriculture for better health, and inspire youth to consider careers in agriculture. The RFA includes three tracks - Implementation, State Agency, and Turnkey - to support a variety of projects and implementation stages.
Learn more here.
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Farm to School Incentive Toolkit
Authored by Cassandra Bull, a recent graduate and research fellow at Tufts University, this report describes and characterizes the variation in 15 statewide Farm to School incentives with respect to their (a) design, (b) context, and (c) alignment to policy goals often attributed to Farm to School. Farm to School incentive policies strive to increase institutional local food purchasing by offsetting the cost of local ingredients through a monetary reimbursement. States have tremendous flexibility in designing these policies, but little guidance on the range of models in which they can use to develop an incentive program. The aggregated collection of experiences and classification schemes presented in this report will give advocates who wish to adopt similar incentive policies a way to identify program elements that are aligned with their specific vision, capacity, and regional context.
Learn more here.
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Talking to Young Children About Race
This Embrace Race action guide highlights how we can get comfortable talking about race with young children.
Read more here.
Indigenous Justice for Environmental Movements
The Catalyst Project has built a toolkit to support non-Indigenous sections of climate and environmental movements to align their work with Indigenous organizing and with Indigenous sovereignty.
Learn more here.
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