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Farm to school connects local agriculture, schools, and partners to benefit students, educators, farmers, families, and communities. | |
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Teens Talk Wellness Student Podcast Premiere!
We are very EXCITED to introduce to you all Teens Talk Wellness! In June 2021, 24 high school students from across North Carolina gathered together to discuss their interest in farm to school, racial justice, environmental justice, food policy, gardens, and cooking. Due to pandemic challenges, six students volunteered to pivot and reimagine the student wellness committee project and designed a podcast to increase student engagement and excitement. During the series, you will follow the journey of three student anchors as they explore student wellness through the lens of farm to school, equity, outdoor education, School Nutrition, and so much more!
Listen here.
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Centering Nourishment in Food Education
June 22, 2023 // 3:30 pm ET
Join the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy for part two of their free, three-part series on bringing indigenous foodways into the classroom. During this workshop, you’ll discuss some of the histories of nutrition and uplifting Afro-Indigenous ways of nourishing the body.
Register here.
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Uniting for a Just Local Food System Through Healthy School Meals for All Policies | Part 1
June 22, 2023 // 2:30 pm ET
Join the National Farm to School Network for the first of their two-part webinar series highlighting Colorado’s successful passage of the healthy school meals for all policy. In this first webinar, you will hear from Patience Kabwasas with Food to Power, and Tomas German-Palacious with The Good Food Collective, two members of Colorado’s Healthy School Meals for All Coalition. They will share insights on how their policy emerged, its role in strengthening the local food system, and how others can replicate their success by asking, “who’s at the table?”
Register here.
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Uniting for a Just Local Food System Through Healthy School Meals for All Policies | Part 2
June 29, 2023 // 3 pm ET
Join the National Farm to School Network for the second of their two-part webinar series highlighting Colorado’s successful passage of the healthy school meals for all policy. This webinar will feature members of Hunger Free Colorado, who will shed light on the intention behind developing and leading Colorado’s Healthy School Meals for All Coalition. They will discuss their strategies for organizing, collaborating with communities across the state, garnering support for the passage, and now implementing their values-aligned universal meals policy.
Register here.
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How Unsettling Curriculum Supports Food (and other) Sovereignties
June 30, 2023 // 3 pm ET
Join the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy for the last session of their free, three-part series on bringing indigenous foodways into the classroom. This session will support creative thinking and learning with art about settler colonialism and impacts on how we live/learn on stolen Land/s.
Register here.
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Garden to Kitchen Resources
Each month, the Poe Center’s expert health educators post how-to instructions for growing and maintaining edible plants and using them in the kitchen.
Learn more here.
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Food Education Resource Hub, Tisch Food Center
Engage children in exploring food systems, food choices, and personal health! The Tisch Food Center’s lessons and materials provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources to teach effective food and nutrition education. These curricula address the interplay of biology, personal behavior, and the present food system.
Learn more here.
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Troubleshooting Compost Problems
Having trouble with your compost system? This resource, created by KidsGardening, shares some common compost problems and solutions.
Learn more here.
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Let’s Talk About Race (Children’s Book)
Let’s Talk About Race discusses the philosophy of story-telling, especially as it pertains to race and equality. Julius Lester offers an opportunity for philosophical discussion about race and how racial identity affects the way we view ourselves and one another. While thinking about their own stories and hearing those of their friends, students may begin to find that what looks like an easy question may not have an easy answer. This will encourage them to break down their own assumptions about race and critically think about them.
Learn more here.
Learning for Justice Classroom Resources
Learning for Justice has robust, ready-to-use- classroom lessons that offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social-emotional learning skills.
Learn more here.
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Bee Wild Contest
Deadline: June 30, 2023
KidsGardening and Wyman's are teaming up to celebrate National Pollinator Month with the Bee Wild Contest! Thirty-five youth garden programs will win $200 to plant a pollinator garden.
Learn more here.
National Garden Bureau: Therapeutic Garden Grant
Deadline: July 1, 2023
The National Garden Bureau promotes the health and healing powers of human interaction with plants through an annual grant program for therapeutic gardens. Three established therapeutic gardens will be selected to receive a grant to help expand or maintain the therapeutic garden. In addition to the grant funding, the selected gardens will also receive a set of Corona Gardening Tools. Schools, non-profits, hospitals, retirement centers, rehabilitation facilities, veteran’s facilities, community centers, day camps, treatment facilities, and inter-generational groups throughout the U.S. are eligible.
Learn more and apply here.
Green Our Planet Grant Programs
Deadline: July 21, 2023
School gardens are some of the best tools for hands-on learning and engagement, and Green Our Planet is here to help by offering two programs, GardenConnect and HydroConnect, to provide schools and students more access to gardens and garden-based learning. The GardenConnect program is valued at $3,500 and Green Our Planet will cover the full cost of the program for up to 100 schools. The HydroConnect program is valued at $10,000 and Green Our Planet will cover 80% of the costs of the program for up to 300 schools. Schools are responsible for $2,000 in total.
Learn more here.
Organic Market Development Grants
Deadline: August 8, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service has approximately $75 million available for FY 2023 for the Organic Market Development Grants program. This grant aims to boost the consumption of domestic organic agricultural commodities by developing new and expanded organic markets. Eligible applicants, including business entities, non-profit organizations, and government entities, can receive funding running from $10,000 to $3 million for projects focused on production, processing, distribution, and consumer market development.
Learn more and apply here.
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School Meal Charge Policies in North Carolina
The School Meals for All NC Campaign has created a report that discusses school meal charge policies in North Carolina. School meal charge policies from 103 of the 115 public school districts in North Carolina were reviewed.
Learn more here.
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2023 Farm Bill Advocacy Toolkit
The National Farm to School Network has created this toolkit to empower you to voice your priorities and advocate for a more just food system. Together, NFSN hopes we can support greater food sovereignty, climate resilience, racial equity, and economic justice through farm to school in the upcoming Farm Bill.
Learn more here.
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