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Harvest of the Month
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What's New?

  • Interested in starting a Farm to School program at your school or district? The USDA Food and Nutrition Service recently announced a new Farm to School Grant Program. If this interests you, read the Request for Application. A letter of intent is due by May 18, with applications due no later than June 15.
  • Watch this four-minute video, “Serving Up Nutrition Education in Schools,” from our partner, the Center for Food & Justice. The video highlights a Harvest of the Month program featuring locally grown foods in the Riverside Unified School District. This local program was designed to complement the district’s Farm to School Program.
  • The Power Play! Campaign just released this new activity booklet, A Farm to Table Adventure. Focused on fruit and vegetable consumption and farm to table concepts, the activities help educate youth about how things grow, what active consumerism looks like, knowing your local farmers, ecological literacy, and how to cook easy, nutritious meals. It is a great complement to any Harvest of the Month or Farm to School activities.
  • We’ve added several new Farm to School resources to the Educators’ Corner, including new videos, a Farm to School brochure, pre-school lessons and activities, and a collection of other nutrition education tools and resources.
  • In need of new resources to complement your classroom activities? Take a look at these Complementary Materials – including translated family newsletters in four languages, healthy poetry, workbooks, and pre-kindergarten activity packets – all developed by our local partners.
  • Check out this new fact sheet from Team California for Healthy Kids. It offers great tips for promoting healthy eating and physical activity to kids throughout the day in schools, before and after school programs, early childhood programs and communities.
  • Read below about a new opportunity that will help prepare students for Harvest of the Month activities.

New opportunity to prepare students to experience Harvest of the Month

Download these seven materials to get started:

 

 

 

  

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