Whole Child Town Hall: Visioning a Healthy, Equitable Future
January 28 // 1pm ET
To bring inspiration to the New Year, Healthier Generation is hosting a 45-minute panel that will highlight the role youth must play in visioning a healthy, equitable future. Attendees will learn why youth engagement is essential to support whole child health and to inform public health campaign efforts, including anti-vaping and COVID-19, and be able to identify at least 3 strategies to lift youth voice and position youth as health advocates. Register here.
Gardening Under Lights With Kids
February 4 // 7-8pm ET
Do you love gardening with kids but perhaps feel challenged by space or weather? Gardening indoors under lights might be the perfect solution! Join KidsGardening’s senior education specialist, Sarah Pounders, and Leslie Halleck, horticultural expert and author of “Gardening Under Lights”, as they simplify successful indoor gardening with lights and explain how you can engage kids in this fun and educational activity. Register here.
N.C. Farm to Preschool Survey 2021
Calling all early childhood educators and providers - We need your help! Please take this shortN.C. Farm to Preschool 2021 Survey so the N.C. Farm to Preschool Network and other partners can provide more resources to help in your work with children. We will be summarizing the statewide results and sharing them in the spring.Thank you!The deadline to complete the survey is January 31, 2021.
Grant Opportunities
FY 2021 Team Nutrition Training Grant for School Meal Recipe Development, Cohort B
Deadline: April 19
The FY 2021 Team Nutrition Training Grant for School Meal Recipe Development supports States in understanding, developing, and using standardized recipes within the School Meal Programs. Using grant funds, States will be able to develop nutritious and tasty recipes that incorporate local agricultural products and appeal to students’ taste preferences. States will build their capacity to standardize recipes, show how standardized recipes credit towards school meal pattern requirements, and assist School Food Authorities in engaging students in menu development.Learn more and apply.
Please send grant opportunities to Arneisha Smallwood, ansmallw@ncsu.edu, or Tessa Thraves, tes_thraves@ncsu.edu.
Racial Equity Resources
Building Relationships Across Higher Education Institutions to Address Racism in the Food System
February 11 // 3-4:30pm ET
The land grant system includes the 1862 (white-led), 1890 (historically Black) and 1994 (Tribal/Indigenous) colleges and universities. These land grants as well as Hispanic Serving Agricultural Colleges and Universities and other public/private higher education institutions all contribute to the advancement of a more sustainable and equitable food system. This webinar will use a racial equity lens to provide an overview of the history and policy that developed these institutions and using that same lens, reimagine an asset-based pluralistic model of collaborative research and outreach across these institutions to advance food system sustainability and resiliency.Register here.
Additional Racial Equity Resources
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), one of our Farm to School Coalition of NC partners, has created a document of current webinars as well as resources to facilitate engagement and learning around Racial Equity, both in general and especially as it relates to food systems and education. View webinars/ resourceshere.
National Farm to School Network
A Shared Vision for School Food Policy
Tune in to the FoodCorps virtual Town Hall on January 26 at 2pm ET with Krystal Oriadha of the National Farm to School Network, Amanda Venezia of Londonderry School District, N.H., Noah Cohen-Cline of The Rockefeller Foundation, and Kumar Chandran of FoodCorps. Bring your ideas, comments, and questions as we look ahead to the next four years of school food policy. Register here.
