Lessons from across America for Farm to School Month
From 2015 to 2020, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation partnered with five state coalitions – Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – to ...
Education
10 Cents a Meal Program supports students and farmers in Michigan
10 Cents a Meal For Michigan’s Kids & Farms, a state-funded program, helps improve childhood nutrition and incentivize local farming economies. It provides ...
Education
Rhea Williams-Bishop: Farm to early care programs are wins for Mississippi. Let’s keep growing them.
Rhea Williams-Bishop, director of Mississippi and New Orleans programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, believes that the richness of Mississippi’s soil should be ...
Food Systems
Advancing racial equity through farm to early care and education in Pennsylvania
Young gardeners using hoes to get the soil ready for planting at A Mother’s Touch Center for Child Development in Sharon, PA. Photo ...
Food Systems
Building community-based, equitable food systems in North Carolina through farm to early care and education
With a nationally recognized early childhood system through its Smart Start public-private partnership, North Carolina provides fertile ground for developing a robust farm ...
Community-driven advocacy grows farm to early care and education in Iowa
Two young girls build a snack with their moms inside the classroom in Oelwein, IA. Photo courtesy of Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness ...
Community Engagement
Farm to early care and education: Lessons from the COVID-19 experience
IN BRIEF Policy Equity Group and the National Farm to School Network recently published Lessons from the COVID-19 Experience, a report to examine ...
Food Systems
Equitable food access through farm to early care and education in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is full of agricultural abundance, with more than 300 farmers’ markets and 900 school and educational community gardens. The state is known ...
Food Systems
Farm to early care and education advances community nutrition in Georgia
Both a program and a movement, farm to early care and education connects young children to local food and healthy eating through growing, ...
Food Systems
Resources to grow the farm to early care and education movement
Farm to early care and education is a foundational program that connects young children with local food production by bringing farm-fresh food into ...
