May 4th – 6th | Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA
Thanks for attending the first ever CA Farm to School Conference! Even if you didn’t attend, we invite you to take a look at many of the resources and photos below.
Program
Click here to access the conference program.
Presentations
Below, we have uploaded PDFs of most of the presentations given at our conference. If a presentation is not linked, it is because it is still being collected, or the presenter did not authorize us to share it. Contact us with any questions about these presentations.
Track: Education on the Farm and in the Garden
- Growing Successful School Gardens Across a District
- Cooking in the Garden (San Diego Unified, Orfalea Foundation)
- School Garden Innovations
- On Farm Education
- School-Based Farms
Track: Making the Case
- Assessing Local Procurement Across the District and County
- FoodLab: Comparing Impacts Across Districts
- National Farm to School Network: F2S Evaluation Framework
- Getting the Farm to the School: The Recipe for Successful Local Procurement
Track: Policy, Funding, and Food Systems
- Soda Taxes: A Revenue Source for Healthy Schools
- Social Justice, Food Justice, Education and the School Meal Program
- Cultivating a Regional Network of District Partners to Advance Farm to School
- Creating Sustainable Collaborations and Funding in Mendocino County
- Labor in the Supply Chain
- From Board Policy to LCAP: District Policy and Funding Opportunities (handout)
Track: Education in the Cafeteria and the Classroom
- Unique Models of Harvest of the Month
- A Full Circle Approach to Garden and Kitchen Curriculum
- Cultivating a Sense of Place: Our Relationship with CA Agriculture through Curriculum
- Farm to Preschool
- Common Core, Food Literacy, and Behavioral Economics
Track: Local Procurement
- Center of the Plate: Protein (Fish, Chicken, Monterey Peninsula Unified cafeteria)
- California Thursdays: A bite-sized implementation strategy for Farm to School (Monterey Peninsula Unified, Conejo Valley Unified)
- Digging into Supply Chains
- Procurement 101, Part II
- Creative Solutions to Support Small Farm Viability
Other
- USDA Local Procurement: Sandy Curwood, Conejo Valley Unified School District
- USDA Local Procurement: Kacie O’Brien, USDA Farm to School
Photos
Click here to see photos from the conference!