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Upcoming Events
- JCF2S Meeting • TBD
Help the School Gardens
We love volunteers!!
If you would like to work with kids or contribute your gardening, farming or administrative experience to our program, please email Anna or go to our “get involved” page to find out more about volunteer opportunities. We often need help in the garden and kitchen, as well as skilled help in carpentry, landscaping, arts & crafts, sewing, photography, videography, grant writing and other miscellaneous tasks.
Must Read Articles
- "Trouble on the Tray" – USA Today series on school lunch safety
- As demand grows for locally raised meat, farmers turn to mobile slaughterhouses
- Bill on School Lunch Is Scaled Back. Criticism of School Lunch Isn’t.
- Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act of 2010
- Farm to School Investment Yields a Healthy Return into State Coffers
- Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches
- Old-hen meat fed to pets and schoolkids
Food Initiatives & Resources
- Cafeteria Man (The Movie)
- Center For Ecoliteracy: A New Agenda For School Food
- Chef Ann Cooper: The Renegade Lunch Lady
- Community Food Security Coalition
- Ecotrust Food & Farms
- Farm to School.org
- Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project
- National Farm to School Network (YouTube)
- Organic School Lunch Program (YouTube)
- The Lunch Box: Healthy Tools to Help All Schools
- USDA Farm to School
- WA Farm to School
Jefferson County Farm to Schools Coalition is a community-based group working to improve the nutritional value of food served in Jefferson County schools.
- » To educate students, their families, school staff and community members of the importance of childhood nutrition.
- » To advocate for fresh, whole and seasonal foods in place of highly processed ones.
- » To support the school board and administrators, food service providers and farmers, and to overcome barriers to buying and serving local and regionally grown foods.
- » To assist in making school gardening projects successful.
Jefferson County Farm to Schools Coalition
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