Programs in Los Angeles and Orange County

ASES- Afterschool Farm to School

The ASES after school farm to school program is an emerging local food program in Buena Park. Buena Park home to Knotts Berry Farm and located in the middle of a historic farm region is working to expose BP school children to innovative agriculture and fo... more >>

Canfield Ave. and Community Magnet Elementary Schools

Every Friday at two Los Angeles public schools, you can see children trying pluots or sweet peas or red peppers or Thompson raisins or many more kinds of produce -- some tentatively taking a bite, some with enthusiasm, often with pleasure. Welcome to Frui... more >>

Communitiy Alliance with Famlily Farmers

Since 2001, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) has been conducting Farm to School programs in California. A statewide, farmer-member organization, CAFF has worked in dozens of school districts from L.A. to Humboldt, running farm education prog... more >>

Compton Unified School District

Compton Unified School District’s new Farm to School program has been functioning and expanding since February 2004. The Compton Unified School District has thirty-nine schools and an average of 93.8 percent of students receive free or reduced price... more >>

Earthroots Field School

Earthroots Field School offers weekly Afterschool Garden Ecology programs on public school campuses in Orange County, CA. These hands-on gardening classes engage children with all aspects of organic and sustainable gardening. Topics include soil bui... more >>

El Segundo Unified

This December, 2007, El Segundo Middle School in Los Angeles County supported South Coast Farms as it launched Growing Healthy Spouts, an agricultural and environmental awareness program developed by Sara Frugard, South Coast Farms CSA manager. Together S... more >>

GrowingGreat

GrowingGreat is a nonprofit school garden and nutritional education organization dedicated to inspiring children and adults to adopt healthy eating habits. GrowingGreat started as a demonstration garden at a single elementary school in the Manhat... more >>

Inner City Kitchen

My name is Crystal Blanchette, Chef and Founder of Inner City Kitchen in Los Angeles County California. Currently with the collaboration of the Los Angeles inner city YMCA (Inglewood, Crenshaw, Palmdale, Lancaster) Farm to School, Boys and Girls Club, an... more >>

Larchmont Charter Farm to School

Larchmont Charter has launched an amazing school garden and farm to school program. With a rich and long garden program history, Larchmont Charter began its farm to school program in the 2008 school year, combining the educational power of an amazing scho... more >>

LAUSD Fresh from the Farm Project

During the 2002-2003 school year, thousands of students in more than 990 classrooms at 41 different LAUSD school sites had the opportunity to taste and learn about farm fresh produce grown in Southern California and brought directly into the classroom. Us... more >>

Los Angeles Leadership Academy

Behind the high school on East Avenue 33 is four acres of hillside that is currently being terraced into an urban farm, made possible by a $50,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente. The LA Leadership Academy will harvest fresh fruits and vegetables in order to... more >>

Orange County - Growing Healthy Sprouts

Are you interested in walking the fields, picking fresh produce, tasting fresh produce and maybe even releasing a ladybug or two?? Then this program is for you! Center for Food & Justice (CFJ) and South Coast Farms have developed an on-farm agriculture an... more >>

Orange County Farm to School Menu of Options

JOIN OUR NEW PROGRAM! CFJ has just launched a farm to school program designed specifically for Orange County schools. The OC menu of options, linked to this page, outlines a number of farm to school programming opportunities that you can begin implementin... more >>

Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District

The SMMUSD Farmers’ Market Salad Bar started in 1997 was the first Farm To School Program in the Los Angeles area. The produce is purchased directly from farmers at the local farmers’ markets on Wednesday and Saturday. Orders are calle... more >>

Seeds

The “farm to school table” project was inspired by the culinary and global vision of Alice Waters, who founded the “edible schoolyard” in Berkeley, California, an inter-disciplinary gardening program with a focus on harvesting, coo... more >>

St Helena Unifed

We are using produce grown on our campus when possible in our school meals program. We are buying fresh produce from Walker Apple Ranch, River Dog Farms and other local growers when possible. more >>