California Farm to School Programs
After School Produce Stand
This program consisted of a weekly after-school produce stand that ran for three consecutive weeks during November and December at Pacific Elementary School. The program initially started at Nicholas...
Alisal Union School District
Located in Salinas, California, the town known as the “Salad Bowl of the World” it is only fitting that Alisal Union School District would have a true commitment to nutrition in the cafete...
Berkeley Unified School District
Berkeley has two very exciting Farm to School related programs going on. The Edible Schoolyard The Center for Ecoliteracy, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School have developed the Edible Gard...
Burnt Ranch
Burnt Ranch, located in a fairly remote part of northern California, is a one-school school district with 85 K-8 students. The food service director, Julie Simon, cooks the school meals in an on-site ...
Canfield Ave. and Community Magnet Elementary Schools
Every Friday at two Los Angeles public schools, you can see children trying pluots or sweet peas or red peppers or Thompson raisins or many more kinds of produce -- some tentatively taking a bite, som...
Compton Unified School District
Compton Unified School District’s new Farm to School program has been functioning and expanding since February 2004. The Compton Unified School District has thirty-nine schools and an average of...
Conejo Valley Unified School District
The Conejo Valley school district, located in Thousand Oaks, CA has multiple nutrition programs in place for their students. The district consists of 30 schools: 20 elementary, 5 middle, 3 high, and 2...
Davis Joint Unified School District
The farmers’ market salad bar, called “Crunch Lunch,” of the Davis Joint Unified School District is a daily buffet-style array of in-season fruits and vegetables sourced from local f...
El Segundo Unified
This December, 2007, El Segundo Middle School in Los Angeles County supported South Coast Farms as it launched Growing Healthy Spouts, an agricultural and environmental awareness program developed by ...
Fort Bragg Unified School District
The farm to school program at Fort Bragg schools includes school gardens, and the incorporation of school garden produce in the cafeteria and classrooms for taste tests, composting and waste managemen...
Fresno Metro Ministry
Farm Fresh Wednesday’s started in October of 2005 as a 10 week pilot program in the Fresno Unified School District with the goal of introducing elementary school students in Fresno County to loc...
Hayward Unified School District
Hayward Unified School District has had a Farm to School program for nearly ten years. They currently work with Ripple-Riley-Thomas, a pear, orange, kiwi, grape, and apple grower in Ukiah. A produce c...
Healdsburg Unified School District
A new school food service supervisor, Nancy May, transformed the Healdsburg schools’ food programs by shifting the focus away from a la carte menu items and back to healthy meal options offered ...
Hickman Community Charter District
The Hickman Community Charter District in Hickman, California serves 1100 students in 3 schools. At Hickman Middle School, fresh fruits purchased from Ripple Riley Thomas (a distributor) are served in...
Humboldt County
Humboldt County has 34 schools with more than 50% of the students enrolled in a free or reduced lunch program. These 34 schools are the focus of the Humboldt County Farm to School effort. The target s...
Inner City Kitchen
My name is Crystal Blanchette, Chef and Founder of Inner City Kitchen in Los Angeles County California. Currently with the collaboration of the Los Angeles inner city YMCA (Inglewood, Crenshaw, Palmd...
LAUSD Fresh from the Farm Project
During the 2002-2003 school year, thousands of students in more than 990 classrooms at 41 different LAUSD school sites had the opportunity to taste and learn about farm fresh produce grown in Southern...
Los Angeles Leadership Academy
The LA Leadership Academy is a social-justice based charter middle school in the LAUSD. As of 2004, of the more than 1,000 schools and education centers that make up LAUSD, the LA Leadership Academy i...
Manhattan Beach Unified School District (facilitated by Growing Great)
Growing Great's Healthy Schools Program facilitates the farm to school efforts at 5 elementary schools in Manhattan Beach Unified School District. The program includes local food samplings in the clas...
Monterey County Farm to School Partnership
The Monterey County Farm to School Partnership is working to improve school lunches by promoting fresh produce sourced from local growers and by working with schools to implement healthy school food p...
Novato/San Rafael Unified School Districts
The Novato and San Rafael School Districts’ farm to school program is headed by Food and Nutrition Services Director, Miguel Villarreal. The districts serve approximately 7,000 meals a day, all...
Ojai Unified School District
Ojai’s rapidly expanding lunchtime salad bar has been successful in exposing students to healthy food choices and good eating habits. Through a partnership with Food For Thought program the week...
Orange County - Growing Healthy Sprouts
Interested in walking the fields, picking fresh produce, tasting fresh produce and maybe even releasing a ladybug or two???? Than this program is for you! CFJ and South Coast Farms, have developed an ...
Orange County Farm to School Menu of Options
JOIN OUR NEW PROGRAM! CFJ has just launched a farm to school program designed specifically for Orange County schools. The OC menu of options, linked to this page, outlines a number of farm to school p...
Pajaro Valley Unified School District
BACK to list of CA projectsPajaro Valley Unified School DistrictFour schools in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District work with Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) on a farm to sch...
Ripple Riley Thomas
Ripple Riley Thomas buys farm-direct produce and delivers weekly in most areas of California. They currently deliver locally grown foods to 64 school districts in California. They purchase only enough...
Riverside Unified School District
The Riverside Unified School District opened its pilot farm to school program in March of 2005 at Jefferson Elementary School and now serves students at three of the district's elementary schools. The...
Sacramento area Farm to School Programs
There are a number of Farm to School initiatives taking place in the Sacramento area. The UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program plays a role in coordinating many of the efforts. ...
Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District
The SMMUSD Farmers’ Market Salad Bar was the first of its kind in the Los Angeles area. The program began in 1997 at one elementary school and within 4 years had expanded to include all 14 schoo...
The Marin Organic School Lunch and Gleaning Program
The Marin Organic School Lunch and Gleaning Program is helping to transform the school lunch choices for our kids by offering a combination of purchased and gleaned food from Marin Organic farms to pa...
Tulare County Farmer in the Dell
The Tulare County Office of Education Nutrition Network has implemented the "Farmer in the Dell" program, which partners local farmers, ranchers, and other agriculture professionals with the...
Ukiah Unified School District
Ukiah Unified School District has demonstratedits commitment to teaching healthy eating habits and the importance of physical activity in a few different ways. Through the district’s Growing Hea...
Ventura Unified School District
The Ventura Unified School District is the site of one of Southern California’s pilot Farm to School programs. The project was spearheaded and driven by the Parent Teacher Association at Juanama...
Winters Joint Unified School District
During the 2002-2003 school year, 4th and 5th grade students from Shirley Rominger Intermediate school took part in a pilot salad bar project in Winters, a town of 6,000 located in California's Centra...