VT FEED Awarded USDA Farm to School 2015 Grant

VT FEED is excited to be a recipient of the USDA Farm to School Grant, which was established to help implement farm to school programs throughout the country in order to improve access to local foods.

According to the USDA grants summaries, “The grant to Vermont FEED will provide training and professional development services to school teams (including administrators, teachers, parents and food service), farm to school practitioners, and school food staff from across the Northeast to remove barriers to serving local food in school cafeterias and to incorporate hands on food, farm, and nutrition activities into school curriculum and nutrition programs. The components of this grant are: establish a farm to school institute that provides professional development for 10 school teams from among the Northeast states; develop a peer‐to‐peer learning community of farm to school practitioners from the Northeast focused on farm to school best practices; and provide training to 200 Vermont school food service staff to support serving local and healthy foods to students. Vermont FEED will offer a series of school food service workshops in partnership with the New England Culinary Institute and the School Nutrition Association‐VT that will provide professional instruction in knife use, scratch‐cooking techniques, and nutrition and procurement guidelines.”

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