Resources for school gardens and farm education
Food grown in school gardens can be served in the cafeteria! Learn about best practices for food safety in the school garden and ways to integrate garden produce into school meals.
WSDA Farm to School Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to provide farms, schools, preschools, childcare providers, students, families, and communities with resources to help them meet their farm to school goals. Through tools, templates, resources, stories, successes, documents and more, the toolkit draws together best practices and farm to school tips from in-state and national network partners.
Local Food in School Meals and COVID-19 Response and Recovery:
Check out this new factsheet for practices and models from the National Farm to School Network
School nutrition staff can find planning tools, publications, factsheets, templates, farm listings, and much more here to support Washington grown purchasing in school meal programs.
For Schools: Resources for Local Food in Schools
Schools around the state are interested in connecting with and purchasing from local farms. Learn more about this opportunity, how it works, and get some resources for selling to schools.
For Farmers: Resources for Selling to Schools
Find recipes, educational and promotional materials, general info, and nutrition facts for serving Washington grown foods in schools and other meal programs.
Washington Grown Food & Recipe Toolkit
Washington Grown Food & Recipe Kit
Recent resources & programs
Check out featured resources and current activities:
- WSDA helped launch the new Washington State Farm to School Network
- WSDA report on value chain produce processing for schools
- Common Threads and Bellingham Public Schools developed a Garden to Cafeteria Toolkit
- The USDA Pilot Project for Procurement of Unprocessed Fruits and Vegetables
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Need Help? Contact Us!
Please contact us with questions, comments, and farm to school successes of your own. With this toolkit we can continue to learn and share with each other. We'd love to hear from you!