Farm to school is a program that brings together local schools, state agencies and organizations together with local farmers to supply healthy nutritious food to our childrens’ schools.
Pathways to Regeneration: Restoration, Resiliency, and Reciprocity
November 6-8
The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions is hosting a virtual conference for growers, environmentalists, changemakers, creatives, health providers, students, and teachers, and anyone else interested in co-creating a way forward to a world that welcomes and lives alongside nature, restores and protects the planet’s resources, and is grounded in a credo of reciprocity that assures justice and respect in all our relationships. It is not too late to get an early bird ticket!
COVID-19 Webinar: Good Food Resilience Series: Farm to Food Assistance: Meeting Community Needs Long-Term
November 12 // 1pm ET
A series of three virtual workshops to provide meaningful peer-learning and partnership building opportunities across the Puget Sound regional food system in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Explore how recent farm-to-food box programs are successfully addressing rising food insecurity with local food. Can these programs be models for the local food pipeline to continue to provide fresh, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods in the future and outside of emergency food programs? Participants and panelists will identify opportunities for program replication and collaboration among farmers, food producers, distributors, food service, retailers, and food assistance service providers.Register here.
No Kid Hungry Education Leaders Grant Opportunity
Deadline: November 20
No Kid Hungry is excited to announce a grant opportunity to support the efforts of school district administrators, including school boards, superintendents, chief financial officers, school business officials, etc., in working to increase district-wide food access to their student body via collaboration with neighboring school districts, community organizations, non-profit partners, and local government agencies. Grants of up to $75,000 will be given to facilitate partnerships in supporting joint efforts to ensure kids in their community have access to the federal meals programs, backpack programs and food pantries. This grant will also support the needs of school districts to run these programs. Learn more and apply.
CFSA Virtual Sustainable Agriculture Conference
Join the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association for the 35th Sustainable Agriculture Conference. The virtual conference offers 50+ live-streamed workshops over November 4-8. Attendees have access to the recorded sessions for a full year.
2021 USDA Farm to School Grant Request for Applications is Now Open!
Deadline: January 8
The fiscal year (FY) 2021 USDA Farm to School Grant ProgramRequest for Applications (RFA) is now available! The solicitation officially opened October 16th, 2020, and will remain open until 11:59pm ET on January 8, 2021. Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) seeks to award up to $10 million this fiscal year. New for FY 2021, institutions operating the Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program at non-school based sites are included in the definition of eligible applicants and may apply for funding. Register for the informationalNovember 10and November 13webinars.
Please send grant opportunities to Arneisha Smallwood, ansmallw@ncsu.edu, or Tessa Thraves, tes_thraves@ncsu.edu.
Racial Equity Resources
Registration Open: Facing Race Conference 2020
November 10-12
Facing Race: A National Virtual Conference is presented by Race Forward, a national non-profit working to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. A unique collaborative space for racial justice movement making, Facing Race is the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives, and other leaders.Learn more and register.
Additional Racial Equity Resources
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), one of our Farm to School Coalition of NC partners, has created a document of current webinars as well as resources to facilitate engagement and learning around Racial Equity, both in general and especially as it relates to food systems and education. View webinars/ resourceshere.
National Farm to School Network
Meet the Community Food Champions
At the close of National Farm to School Month 2020, National Farm to School Network is excited to share the selection of 30 individuals to be recognized as 2020 Community Food Champions. These individuals – who represent nearly every role in the school food and farm to school ecosystem – were nominated by individuals in their communities. recognize their efforts to go above and beyond in keeping kids and their families connected to community food systems. Meet the Community Food Champions here.
