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ResetResource | Fact Sheets
    Farm to Summer Factsheet
        This factsheet highlights why summer meals are ripe for local foods and agriculture-based activities.
      12/14/2017
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    Farm to Preschool: Local Food and Learning in Early Child Care and Education Settings
        This fact sheet discusses how farm to school isn’t just for K-12 institutions; an increasing number of early child care and education providers are engaging in farm to preschool activities.
      12/14/2017
    Resource | Fact Sheets
    Gardens in Tribal Communities
        Tribal communities are growing gardens of all forms from medicinal gardens and small community gardens to larger food production gardens to school gardens. This fact sheet primarily focuses on tribal school gardens.
      12/14/2017
    Resource | Fact Sheets
    Bringing Tribal Foods and Traditions into Cafeterias, Classrooms, and Gardens
        This fact sheet explores how schools and tribes are integrating traditional foods into child nutrition programs.
      12/14/2017
    Resource | Fact Sheets
    Cooperative Extension Supporting Farm to School
        This fact sheet will assist Extension professionals in getting involved with farm to school.
      12/14/2017
    Resource | Fact Sheets
    Research Shows Farm to School Works
        This fact sheet, Research Shows Farm to School Works, reviews the USDA 2015 Farm to School Census.
      12/14/2017
    Resource | Fact Sheets
    Office of Community Food Systems Resources
        OCFS seeks to increase the availability of local foods in child nutrition programs, promote hands-on learning activities such as gardening, farm visits, and culinary classes, and encourage the integration of food related education into regular, standards-based curriculum to help children make lifelong healthy eating choices.
      12/14/2017
    Resource | Fact Sheets
    Geographic Preference
        This Geographic Preference fact sheet reviews the topic of geographic preference and how it can be used to purchase local foods.
      12/14/2017
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    Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) Fact Sheet
        The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) is a federally assisted program providing free fresh fruits and vegetables to children at eligible elementary schools during the school day. The goal of the FFVP is to introduce children to fresh fruits and vegetables, to include new and different varieties, and to increase overall acceptance and consumption of fresh, unprocessed produce among children. The FFVP also encourages healthier school environments by promoting nutrition education.
      12/01/2017
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    SBP Fact Sheet
        The School Breakfast Program (SBP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and non-profit private schools and residential child care institutions. The SBP started in 1966 as a pilot project, and was made a permanent entitlement program by Congress in 1975.
      11/20/2017

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