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Benicia Unified School District incorporates student feedback into scratch-made school meals for greater participation. 🍎🧑🍳🧑🎓🌱⤵️🙌
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Live Oak School District brings farm to school to culinary classes, cafeteria, school farm 🍎🍓🍋⤵️
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"Being a woman in agriculture means having the courage to step into spaces where few women have gone before and allowing your work, character and dedication to speak louder than expectations."
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UC ANR Field Days showcase innovative solutions to some of the issues facing California growers. During these commodity or region specific events, companies are invited to showcase their products and demonstrate them in real-world conditions.
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Beginning in 2025, this project by First 5 Shasta and UC Cooperative Extension provided six weeks of hands-on education and California-grown produce to 12 childcares across Shasta County.
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CDFA National Farm to School Month Spotlight: A college student educates childcare youth in Shasta County via USDA Grow It, Try It, Like It curriculum. This outreach by First 5 Shasta & UCCE to support farm to family childcare was funded by CDFA Farm to School Incubator Grant! 🍎
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CDFA funding helps Lawndale ESD incorporate scratch cooking into its 15-year-strong farm to school program. “This ensures that high-quality, scratch-made meals and CA-grown and produced items will continue to be featured ... .”
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CDFA National Farm to School Month Spotlight: Lawndale Elementary School District in LA County invested CDFA Farm to School Grant funding into made-from-scratch cooking like this Pollo Asado Bowl in school menus that incorporated student voice and choice in recipe development!
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First Partner Siebel Newsom celebrates California’s nation-leading Farm to School program at statewide summit ⤵️
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Farm to School connects local food system and community for Hoopa Valley High School students through the Klamath-Trinity Resource Conservation District ⤵️
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CDFA National Farm to School (F2S) Month Spotlight: El Dorado Union High School District utilized CDFA F2S grant funding to purchase hydroponic systems and grow lights to give students hands-on agriculture experiences. Read more ⤵️🌱😁⤵️
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El Dorado Union High School District is utilizing CDFA Farm to School Incubator Grant Program funding to bring hands-on agriculture into special education programs at five high schools in southern El Dorado County:
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CDFA National Farm to School Month Spotlight: CDFA grant funding is being utilized in Humboldt Co. to help Hoopa Valley HS students attend the annual Salmon Project at the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s weir at Tish Tang and learn about salmon, fisheries, traditional practices & more!
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CDFA National Farm to School Month Spotlight: Students at Twin Oaks Elementary in San Diego County’s San Marcos Unified School District (SMUSD) plant the Orchard of Dreams / El Huerto de Los Sueños at the dual language immersion program school. Learn more:
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"Being a woman in agriculture means honoring the generations of women who have contributed to farming, often without receiving the recognition they deserved, while helping pave the way for future generations."
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At San Marcos Unified School District in San Diego County, farm to school is about more than what is served on the lunch tray 🧑🌾2⃣🏫⤵️
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CDFA National Farm to School Month Spotlight: Porterville Unified students in Tulare County show off posters detailing where their local food is coming from during the district’s annual food show. Read more about this Farm to School Incubator Grantee ⤵️
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CA Farm to School Incubator Grant Program funds are hard at work in Tulare County helping Porterville USD’s Student Nutrition Services strengthen farm to school connections across the district and expand its commitment to purchasing locally grown food🌱⤵️
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CDFA National Farm to School Month Spotlight: A Climate Action Pathways for Schools intern funded through CDFA’s Farm to School Incubator Grant plants pumpkin seeds at Porterville Unified School District in Tulare County. The pumpkins will be harvested during the school year!
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"Being a woman in agriculture means learning to wear many hats, holding your ground at tables where you had to earn your seat, and finding joy and fulfillment in the simple fact that the food you help grow ends up on a family’s table ... ."
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