Pennsylvania Farm to School Programs

Eat Fresh Here: Philly
Beginning in 2009, and entering its third full year this fall, the School District of Philadelphia will be purchasing fresh, healthy, locally grown fruits and vegetables for use in schools meals. Ov...

Food for Thought - Kimberton Waldorf School
Food for Thought Our lunch program creates locally grown and organic lunches for the children and adults in the Kimberton Waldorf School Community in a beautiful family environment. We constantly s...

Great Valley Food Service Garden
Great Valley Food Service Garden Project Our Garden project started out as an idea that, with some help from the community, became a reality. We met with the Food Service Advisory Committee, who qu...

Kindergarten Initiative
For the past three years, The Food Trust has been working with kindergarten students, teachers, parents and local farmers to foster healthy eating habits in young children. Through a combination of n...

Montgomery School
The Montgomery School Organic Garden was established through a Farm and School partnership with Maysie's Farm Conservation Center(MFCC), a local Conservation Education organization that operates a CSA...

PENUT (Physical, Environmental & Nutritional Education)
At Bald Eagle Area, we have been purchasing local apples for years and local potatoes for the last three years. In prior years, when the orchard ran out of apples around December, we would then purch...

Pittsburgh Edible Schoolyard
The Edible Schoolyard Project is a school garden-based program directed toward nutritional and agricultural education. Founded on the seed-to-table learning model initiated by Alice Waters in Berkeley...

The Farm to School Project, Nutritional Development Services, Archdiocese of Philadelphia
One established farm to school program exists within Nutritional Development Services of the Archdiocese/Catholic Social Services, which serves meals daily at 150 Catholic and charter schools in the P...