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Has your school considered a Farm to School program?

By improving the offerings of fresh fruits and vegetables, Farm to School programs will help make the healthy choice the easy choice for students and school staff. Kids eat more fresh local foods and learn about where their food comes from, all while supporting local farmers. By connecting farms and schools,
children, schools and farmers all benefit.

Hear about the Dover-Eyota public school system in southern Minnesota featured by KAAL-TV News, the district is now serving locally raised meats, cucumbers, watermelons, tomatoes, zucchini and potatoes. Nearby farmers have also visited to celebrate Farm to School with students and staff.

"The positive benefits nutritionally along with the educational benefits of talking about where their food is coming from have been exciting."
—Elizabeth Dohnansky: Director of Food & Nutritional Service, Cloquet Public Schools

"These apples are bomb-diggity"
—a Moreland Elementary student

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• Let's Move Salad Bars to School: Every child should have the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school. Find out how

• NEW! A Field Guide To Salad Bars In Schools (PDF: 4.1MB/63 pages) offers a one-stop guide for schools offering this great lunch room program for their students. Section by section links, as well as many more resources for schools, are availabe at our salad bars schools page.
• “Farm to School: Growing Our Future” documentary, from the University of Minnesota Extension, MDH, and Twin Cities Public Television, explores the economic advantages and remaining challenges for businesses, farms, schools and communities as we work together to improve our children’s health and education. You can watch entire 30-minute documentary online, view 12-minute version, learn about screenings in your area or even host a screening of your own.
  
• The Economic Impact of Farm-to-School Lunch Programs: A Central Minnesota Example
  
• Minnesota's Let’s Move Salad Bars to School program highlighted by the national Let’s Move effort
  
• Farm to School Videos five on-line trainings designed primarily for food service professionals from the University of Minnesota Extension