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Farm to School Month Mid idwest Menu Celebrate Food Day during Farm to School Month with schools around the region! Highlight your local and regional food efforts on October 22, 2015 ! Vanessa Herald Melinda Maendele Farm to School Specialist

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Farm to School Month Mid idwest Menu

Celebrate Food Day during Farm to School Month with schools around the region! Highlight your local and regional food efforts on October 22, 2015!

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Vanessa Herald

Farm to School Specialist at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, Wisconsin Farm to School Great Lakes Regional Lead for the National Farm to School Network Lead Partner for the School Food FOCUS Upper Midwest Regional Learning Lab

Sandy Huisman, RD, MS, LD

Director Food and Nutrition Management Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa

Chad Elliott

Culinary Specialist Decorah Community School District, Iowa

Melinda Maendele

Food Service Director Norris Public School District, Nebraska

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Erin McKee VanSlooten

Farm to Institution Senior Program Associate Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Minnesota

Sarah Smith

Farm to School Lead Center for Rural Affairs Nebraska

Sandra Renner

Farm to School Coordinator Center for Rural Affairs Nebraska

Marlie Wilson

Former Iowa FoodCorps Fellow with the National Center for Appropriate Technology- Midwest Office

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Farm to School Month History

Vanessa Herald, Farm to School Outreach Specialist UW-Madison, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems

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October is National Farm to School Month

Learn more at www.farmtoschool.org/our-work/farm-to-school-month

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School Food FOCUS and the Upper Midwest Regional Learning Lab

www.schoolfoodfocus.org

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National Farm to School Network www.farmtoschool.org

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Food Day www.foodday.org

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Midwest Menu

October 22, 2015

Sign up: bit.ly/MidwestMenu Like us: Facebook.com/MidwestMenu Website: (forthcoming) Schoolfoodfocus.org/foodday

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Apple Crunch

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Food Day in Des Moines

Sandy Huisman, Food Service Director, DMPS

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Planning for the Midwest Meal

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Locally Sourced Chicken

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Managing Staff and Recipes

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Outreach Efforts

  • Loudspeaker

announcements

  • Sneezeguard signs
  • Shared event through

nutrition educators and FoodCorps service members

  • Sent press release to

local media outlets

  • Registered event on

foodday.org

  • Made sure DMPS PR

would cover event

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Outcomes

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Tips for 2015

  • Work with community partners to help connect with a local farmer or

food hub like Iowa Choice Harvest

  • Make sure you publicize your efforts
  • Take time to spend the Food Day lunch with students
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October is Farm to School Month!

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High School’s Greenhouse

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High School’s Portable High Tunnel

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Fresh Field Greens Harvested by Students

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Johnny Apple, Great Caesar, Fiesta Chicken and Chef’s Salads

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Fettuccini Alfredo in Biology class!

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May is beef month and we are celebrating!

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  • Local pork
  • homemade roll
  • local apples
  • local coleslaw
  • radish and cucumber

salad from the high school garden

A delicious Midwest Menu!

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Apple Crunch

Taher @ Norris

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Apple Crunch

  • Objectives
  • Promoting Farm to School
  • Comfort Zone Expansion!
  • Fun in sampling
  • Engage at various age levels
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Apple Crunch

  • Action
  • Priced 3 vendors for apples - picked farm
  • HS Advanced Food Class - made signs to

demonstrate types and took survey after tasting

  • HS Advanced Floral - made display area
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Apple Crunch

  • Results
  • Advanced Foods Class Recorded Votes
  • Fun Interaction between HS/IS
  • Thoughtful Answers
  • Fuji Won
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Apple Crunch

Nebraska First Lady Sally Ganem Student Involvement: HS Advanced Foods & Advanced Floral, IS Students

http://beatricedailysun.co m/news/local/first-lady- visits- norris/article_7e8e62cc- 2373-5c50-aa34- bd38f57b9954.html

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Apple Crunch

Advanced Foods Class Prairieland Dairy Representatives

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Apple Crunch

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Questions & Comments

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Thank you!

Send additional questions to Erin at emckee@iatp.org .