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Nicole- SVUSD CHild Nutrition Department

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Nicole- SVUSD CHild Nutrition Department

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Principles, science teachers, after-school teachers

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Monterey County Office of Education / Farm to School Program Coordinator 

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Monterey County Office of Education / Farm to School Program Coordinator 

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Recruit volunteers (backyard gardeners)

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Governor's Office and Elected Officials

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Resources!

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Community Garden Leaders

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Director of Social Services to get funding for grow kits for free/red lunch students

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Director of Social Services to get funding for grow kits for free/red lunch students

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Local Farmers in our area

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connect with more local farms in partnership

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Our local almond processor/advisory committee member.

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We want to reach our parents to be more engaged in the current distance learning projects.
When we are back to traditional learning we would like to engage our city officials to obtain monetary support and possibly more land for our projects.

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School Principals who can get buy in from teachers in the classroom

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Doing it with them and giving them time to share what they learned and are excited about

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farmer visits to the classroom where kids can use leftover milk containers to plant seeds that they will also be planting in their school gardens

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farmer visits to the classroom where kids can use leftover milk containers to plant seeds that they will also be planting in their school gardens

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my students are from all over the US... I mailed seeds and had them start gardens at home

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7th/8th Grade growing kits for at home learning; follow students through the project and do a full circle project throughout the year.

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Provide resources to learn in all environments.

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interactive webinars, garden activity kits, shared videos, garden journals, and more!

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I am holding virtual 1st grade tours currently and distributed over 600 activity packets to our 1st graders in our district with seeds and materials for them to grow their own. The FFA students are Farm managers and jr high's have clubs here at the Farm.

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Using the garden to teach science concepts

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Using the garden to teach science concepts

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We facilitate LifeLab classes for teachers to start or use their school gardens.

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Filed trips and summer camp at the farm.

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During Covid we have developed "Grab and Grow" activity kits distributed at a variety of our partner sites. The kit includes materials for families to grow herbs/fruits/vegetables in an apartment setting.

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Utilizing the CA Ag in the Classroom Taste and Teach Curriculum. We really focus on making everything the kids do hands on and something they can apply to their everyday life. They bring home food from the garden, take home research project on plants and water management.

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Pea growing kits (compostable cup, soil, 3 peas/ea) for grades TK-2 cost about $0.30/ea. Microgreen growing kits (aluminum trays, soil, micro greens seeds) for grades 3-5 cost about $0.80/ea. Coin envelopes for seeds. Paper bags for kit materials and instructions. Paper bags for soil (if soil isn't too wet!). Very popular with the students. Cost does not include labor to assemble and distribute kits. ;)

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Love the idea of sending home garden grow kits!

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We have been sending students home with growing kits. We just recently sent our high school garden club home with a container garden, seeds and we are now working on a compost in a jar project that will make them just enough compost to use in their container gardens!

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We installed donated TV's into the multipurpose rooms and we broadcast a simple Google Slide show (looped) with local farms, veggies pictures, etc.  This links to the salad bar's food cards which also have farm information.

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Tower Garden (we grow herbs for our program indoors & quickly!) - got a grant to get two units.

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Tower Garden (we grow herbs for our program indoors & quickly!) - got a grant to get two units.

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Teach the history of agriculture, lessons learned, sustainable practices

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creating quick activities that align with different subject matter. Math, Science, Art, etc

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Field trip, in person or virtual

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Field trip to an ultra local farm or to the farmers market

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one classs we offer is AP Environmental Science within our AG pathway and teach a unit on agricul

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one classs we offer is AP Environmental Science within our AG pathway and teach a unit on agricul

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create/teach lesson(s) that cover this very topic and revisiting key messages learned

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create/teach lesson(s) that cover this very topic and revisiting key messages learned

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Farm field trips, farmer visits to the cafeteria, summer farm camp, maps in the cafeteria of where the featured item for the day is sourced from

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Garden to cafeteria program

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I am always looking for great NE and Ag Based resources to post and share with the program operators of the Child Nutrition Programs.

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Connect garden lessons with classroom science lessons and also with the cafeteria

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By showing growing process on campus in school gardens (small scale) and then organizing field trips to larger farms and other small scale community food producers

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Hold grade level sessions to sample Farm produce or produce from local growers who I contact. Then have students assess their "likeability" of their sampling and connect it to environment and growing on the Farm.

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Invite a farmer to the school. Show the farmer the student gardens and let them talk with the farmer.

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Farm field trips and transparency with farming practices.

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Creating statewide food education standards so that schools have a framework for implementing edible education

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Community Partner               Our Kindergarten through 3rd grade nutrition curriculum have Farm to You Lessons.

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Community Partner               Our Kindergarten through 3rd grade nutrition curriculum have Farm to You Lessons.

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During Covid-19 we have been doing virtual gardening, where students help determine what I plant in the school gardens. Hoping once we're back in person we will be able to make some simple recipes with their choices to taste!

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Field trips, have the local farmer come and introduce/educate students

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Long lasting relationships with local farmers - where children can engage with them at school, at the farmers market, on farm field trips and get to know them and their values over time

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Youth advocacy around climate change is so huge right now!! Students (especially middle and high) are so interested in learning more. Strike when the needle's hot through education engagement and connection to plant based foods in the cafeteria!

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Youth advocacy around climate change is so huge right now!! Students (especially middle and high) are so interested in learning more. Strike when the needle's hot through education engagement and connection to plant based foods in the cafeteria!

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We provide students the opportunity to get hands on experience in the farm to fork process. Students partner with industry professionals at ALL stages of the process and get to look at what goes into it. They then take that knowledge and apply it in our school farm

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Providing students with tangible and hands-on learning resources.

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Host Meet the Farmer Events in the cafeteria so students can meet who grew their food!

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Host Meet the Farmer Events in the cafeteria so students can meet who grew their food!

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Nicole- Simi Valley Child Nutrition Department

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Nicole- Simi Valley Child Nutrition Department

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-Quick Facts Posters
-Children can color vegetable pages and we can hang them in the cafeterias
-Virtual farm tours
-Send home recipes on what to make with the Harvest of the Month
-Post recipes online with Harvest of the Month

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We handed out hundreds of seedlings, pots and soil for summer growing to inspire families to grow/eat at home

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Offering

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We have grains for schools gardens. If you ever need grain seed for your school garden and need guidance on how to grow grains, please let us know. We work with wheat farmers

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When talking about rural and small schools, we're talking

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We are working to partner with our local sustainable farm and the school garden we have on site (we are an agriculture program) to provide a monthly produce box for families that sign up. We also are partnering with our culinary academy to provide recipes for each months box. It is hopes that students are fully involved from farm to fork.

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At CDE we are promoting the F2Summer Week Celebration in California, our theme this year is "Celebrate Local Foods"

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We want to connect with local producers and processers in our area.

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Connecting the cafeteria to the existing school garden and developing a partnership between the two.

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Helping school districts purchase unique fruit varieties with stories of where they came from

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Hands on labs and lessons that show students how food is grown, produces, marketed etc.

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helping schools to grow more grains on their schools gardens and facilitating a mill and recipes for them to experiment with children utilizing 100% whole wheat flours.

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Leading by example. Eating the local produce with the students!

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Leading by example. Eating the local produce with the students!

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Jr Chef classes - the kids eat and enjoy the food they make.

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ordering produce from within our region

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Connect the cafeteria to the classroom. Also, use social media to engage families.

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Ask them and get feedback. Taste Surveys.

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Education & Promotion! With everything online these days it can be taught but it give me and my team an opportunity to reach more students AND their parents. / Having meaningful conversations with them on their interests such as climate change / engaging their parents!!

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Education & Promotion! With everything online these days it can be taught but it give me and my team an opportunity to reach more students AND their parents. / Having meaningful conversations with them on their interests such as climate change / engaging their parents!!

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serve it with school meals! flavored or cut up

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Our students love to "vote" about their taste tests by dropping a bean into a box with cartoon faces to indicate "Like It/Love It/Not Today"... they are typically very happy to try new foods with taste tests.

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Eating from the school garden

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More connection between school garden classrooms and featuring food growing there in the cafeteria

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More connection between school garden classrooms and featuring food growing there in the cafeteria

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Assist in connecting farmers to local school districts.

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GRANTS, NETWORKS, and PRODUCER CONNECTIONS. At CDFA we can give funding, leverage our statewide network of experts, and help schools connect with local producers

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Hands on labs and lessons that show students how food is grown, produces, marketed etc.

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supporting our cafeterias to connect with farms, and supporting the farms who want to sell crops to schools

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Each month we harvest and circulate a special crop (this month was honey) with information about the farmer and the food.

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Connect more with local farms and community food producers while also continuing to grow fruits and vegetables on campus to feed students and their families

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Nicole-Simi Valley Child Nutrition Department

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Nicole-Simi Valley Child Nutrition Department

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Taste testing produce from local farms. Virtual farm tours to see where their produce is coming from. Provide information on local resources such as our community garden!

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We put our fruit grown on the Farm into the school lunches, I pushed into classrooms to do tasting labs with students using our Farm produce, and the Farm produce & fruit are given to our Foods/Culinary classes in the district for them to create meals and/or use for their learning.

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We put in a "Demonstration Garden" where we have several different ways to grow things, including Kratky, Huglekulture, cardboard gardening, squarefoot gardening, Aquaponics, etc. The students also do a brochure on them that gets distributed to visitors and guests

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school-wide gardening program with kids involved with every aspect of growing food

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Include more local bakeries who already have partnership with local wheat farmers to prepare breads, pizza, tortillas, for example with 100% whole wheat that is locally grown and milled.

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We have a garden at each of our four campuses where students get hands-on experiences.

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We partnered with a local preschool, and helped them put in raised garden boxes and provided them with plants and seeds

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Our Chef meets with the TK/1 students to review the menu for the upcoming month, highlighting local farmers and produce.