Sentences with phrase «school food program grew»

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Among them: intensive community gardens that provide a therapeutic space where members are taught how to grow their own vegetables; programs that teach young mothers about proper nutrition; workshops where local residents learn about food security and receive public - speaking training; and after - school classes where tweens whip up healthy meals.

Parents and carers are informed about what's happening with the Australian Organic Schools program, and canteen managers and volunteers are invited to participate by including healthy organic food (ideally grown in the school garden) and Australian Certified Organic products on their menus.

The program helps schools learn about growing and eating healthy food.

It provides in - depth programming that helps grow local food procurement capacity; educates the public about the importance and impact of Good Food; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food polfood procurement capacity; educates the public about the importance and impact of Good Food; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food polFood; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food polfood policy.

Ultimately, Extension services serve as the bridge school districts need between the locally - grown foods they serve, and a sustainable program that makes a positive impact on Alaska's students.

-LSB-...] have no problem with programs that work nutrition education into the school curriculum, such as Recipe for Success's innovative seed - to - plate approach that use math, science and language arts while showing impoverished kids how their food grows and -LSB-...]

The School Nutrition Program served over 1 million pounds of local food and students had the opportunity to taste test a variety of fresh, locally grown food 73 times.

Summer garden program where community members, volunteers, staff, and students from many area schools grow food and offer produce sales to the public.

Learn about their school food service program and help create a marketing and public health campaign around fresh, Washington grown fruits and vegetables in their school.

The Gardening and Horticulture Program at the Waldorf School of Garden City aims to give students the experience and practical skills to grow their own food in a healthy sustainable way; not only for their bodies, but for the health and vitality of our planet earth.

It wasn't long before the two groups» talking points mirrored each other perfectly, with each espousing a pressing need for «flexibility» in school food programs, a goal which sounds innocuous but really means throwing science - based nutrition standards out the window, despite growing evidence of their success in improving the diets of 31 million school kids each day.

For farm - to - school policies, outputs include whether schools continue to order and serve the same or greater amounts of locally grown foods as when the program started.

«In order to use food in the school food program, it would need to meet specific / certified growing practices,» CPS spokeswoman Monique Bond said.

School garden and chef - to - school programs are helping hundreds of Houston schoolchildren expand their knowledge and exposure to freshly grownSchool garden and chef - to - school programs are helping hundreds of Houston schoolchildren expand their knowledge and exposure to freshly grownschool programs are helping hundreds of Houston schoolchildren expand their knowledge and exposure to freshly grown food.

Despite the federal funding for the American school lunch program, there are initiatives to get local (and state) grown food on the school lunch menus.

Though in many ways the program has been a success, there is growing concern among parents and doctors about the health of America's children and the quality of the food provided by school lunches.

The WSDA Farm to School Program and the Washington School Nutrition Association (WSNA) first partnered together to develop seasonal menus featuring Washington - grown food and to bring together farms and schools for Taste Washington Day 2010.

Find recipes and nutrition facts for serving Washington grown foods in schools and other meal programs.

As the number of children participating in the school - lunch program grew, the need to provide more food led the schools to buy prepackaged, processed food, which led to the companies making those foods becoming big players within SNA.

Now that you mention it, I actually have no problem with programs that work nutrition education into the school curriculum, such as Recipe for Success's innovative seed - to - plate approach that uses math, science and language arts while showing impoverished kids how their food grows and teaching them about sound nutrition.

The Platinum level is the highest recognition awarded to Georgia school nutrition programs for farm - to - school programs... from serving locally grown food in cafeterias to teaching students science through school gardens to demonstrating how to cook healthy meals.

A growing number of cities, school districts and non-profit groups are offering meals over school breaks, said Crystal FitzSimmons, director of school programs for the Food Research & Action Center, another national group that works to fight hunger.

panel, where panelists discussed all of the great things about serving breakfast in the classroom: improved academic performance, reduced tardiness and absences, lower obesity rates, opportunities for growing school food programs, and most important of all: it's the right thing to do.

The Farm - to - School Program helps connect districts with local farmers and increase the use of locally grown food on school School Program helps connect districts with local farmers and increase the use of locally grown food on school school menus.

New York State is making $ 1 million available to school districts to start Farm - to - School Programs to help get more locally grown food onto menus for kids breakfasts and luschool districts to start Farm - to - School Programs to help get more locally grown food onto menus for kids breakfasts and luSchool Programs to help get more locally grown food onto menus for kids breakfasts and lunches.

Many schools in multicultural areas have used their kitchen garden programs to help bring together diverse communities with a common love of growing food, such as Hebersham Public School in Western Sydney which has many students of Pacific and Maori backgrounds.

The focus of the program has been to enable primary school students in Year 3 to Year 6 to learn how to grow, harvest, prepare and share seasonal fresh food in the belief that this approach will positively influence children's food choices.

Laura said Year 10 - 12 students from the school's VCAL program were currently involved in gardening and cooking the produce they had grown, and they would also like to integrate kitchen garden activities into VCE Food Technology classes, as well as a the Year 8 program.

The Kitchen Garden Program is now delivered in over 800 primary schools across Australia, teaching around 100,000 students every year the joys of growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing fresh, seasonal, delicious food.

This program will give grants to DCPS and charter schools to start gardens and encourage them to include demonstration compost piles in their gardens (food must be grown in safe soil); provide curricula, technical assistance, and other support; and keep data on the locations and types of gardens.

The Act includes funding to support Farm to School programs: schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program will receive an extra 5 cents per day when at least one component of a reimbursable breakfast or lunch contains a meal component made entirely of unprocessed, locally - grown foods and meets the nutrition and access requirements of the Healthy Schooschools that participate in the National School Lunch Program will receive an extra 5 cents per day when at least one component of a reimbursable breakfast or lunch contains a meal component made entirely of unprocessed, locally - grown foods and meets the nutrition and access requirements of the Healthy SchoolsSchools Act.

The Act directs District agencies (OSSE Department of Health, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of the Environment) to work with community partners (such as University of the District of Columbia, school food vendors, and community organizations) to create educational programming that promotes purchasing and eating locally - and sustainably - grown foods.

In Ithaca, Cool School Food is also a Farm to School Program, featuring locally grown, organic beans and grains grown at Cayuga Pure Organics!

However, the result is that working with 20 school districts and three part - time food coordinators, the program has increased schools» purchasing of Washington - grown fruits and vegetables by more than $ 1 million.