Fruit and Vegetable Promotion in School
Fruits and Vegetables Galore: Helping Kids Eat More, U.S. Department of Agriculture – a tool for school foodservice professionals packed with tips on planning, purchasing, protecting, preparing, presenting and promoting fruits and vegetables.
Oklahoma Farm-to-School Program: Growing Healthy Kids and a Healthy Rural Economy – aims at getting Oklahoma-grown food on the cafeteria trays of school children. It encourages farmers to sell produce to schools and encourages schools to buy part of their fresh fruit and vegetable needs from Oklahoma farmers along with local healthy farm products.
USDA Releases First Farm to School Evaluation: Efforts to serve foods in schools are expanding nationwide, but creating a market between small farms and school districts still poses many challenges, according to the USDA's first report on farm-to-school initiatives.
National Farm-to-School Program, hosted by the Center for Food and Justice – connects schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local regional famers.
Oklahoma Farm to You – a traveling interactive adventure for elementary school children that follows food from the farm to the market and through the body to explore the relationships between agriculture, food and health.
Fruits and Veggies, More Matters
Youth Gardens – using gardening as a vehicle for encouraging children to make good food choices, augmenting classroom studies with experiential learning, building a love of nature stimulating social interaction, facilitating cultural exchange, and more.
- View data from 2010 that quantifies the benefits of school and youth gardens.
