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Connecting Farms to Schools

The Pocket Market Toolkit: Your Online Guide to Establishing Pocket Markets
This web based toolkit is an excellent source of information that provides information and resources for how to set up a Pocket Market in your own community!

FarmtoSchool.org
Farm to School programs are popping up all over the U.S. These programs connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting local small farmers.

Campus Food Purchasing Policies

Yale Sustainable Food Purchasing Guide
The Yale Sustainable Food Purchasing Guide provides a practical guide for university students, university administration, chefs, nutritionists, and food purchasers to help institutions and individuals transition to more sustainable purchasing practices.

Bringing Local Food to Local Institutions: A Resource Guide for Farm-to-School and Farm-to-Institution Programs
When schools purchase from local farms, they stimulate the local economy and guarantee an income for farmers. This document contains information on how to make arrangements between farmers and school food providers work.

AASHE Campus Food Resources
The following resources are intended to help campuses transition to sustainable food systems. Institutions can use their food purchases to support their local economies; encourage safe, environmentally friendly farming methods; and help alleviate poverty for farmers.

High School & Elementary School Gardens

School Year Gardens: A Toolkit for High Schools to Grow Food from September to June
A guide for teachers and students with school gardens giving advice on how to make the most use of your gardens year-round by Paris Marshall Smith and Arzeena Hamir. Produced by the Richmond Fruit Tree Project, a network of volunteers, property owners, community supporters and food recipients in Richmond, BC.

TeacherGram Sustainable Agriculture Series
Curriculum resources for secondary schools from LifeCycles Project Society in Victoria, BC. Five-part print series (downloadable, 39 pages total). Content is excellent and thorough. Covers wide spectrum of food security issues, from local to global, from hunger to sustainable agriculture. Includes teacher background, in-class activities, resource lists, glossaries, and links to provincial curriculum.

Student Garden Guide
The student garden guide contains information about ways students can establish relationships between their own gardens and campus food services.