Oklahoma Resources & Publications
Other Resources
Oklahoma Food Cooperative Websiteby Oklahoma Food Cooperative
We're a grassroots network uniting Oklahoma folks interested in sustainably produced, locally grown food. We bring the farmer's market to your front door. Our goal is a business that is environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and socially just.
Why Schools Should Serve Locally-Grown Foods Essay Contest Winners
by The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
This essay contest is designed in include young people in a thoughtful discussion of solutions and current challenges facing farmers and consumers in our food system. The winning essays will focus on the issues and potential benefits involved in forming an Oklahoma Farm-to- School program in an individual school and/or statewide in many schools.
Buying & Selling Local Foods
The Oklahoma Food Connection 2003: A Directory of Agricultural Producers, Crops, and Institutional Bby Shawn Campbell Oklahoma Food Policy Institute
The backbone of Oklahoma’s rich heritage has always been the family farm, but due to consolidation and depressed prices, today’s family farms are disappearing at an alarming rate. On October 16th, 2001, a group of Oklahomans charged by Oklahoma’s Commissioner of Agriculture set out to reverse the course of this epidemic. Citing an opportunity to benefit Oklahoma farmers by opening new markets, the Oklahoma Food Policy Council was formed. The council is a joint project of the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry.
Farm to School Program
by Great Plains RC&D Great Plains RC&D News
Local grown & milled whole wheat flour being used as a product in the farm to school program.
Evaluation Tools & Reports
The Oklahoma Farm-to-School Report, Including the Oklahoma Institutional Food Service Surveyby Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, & D Oklahoma Food Policy
The Oklahoma Food Policy Council is a joint project of the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry and Drake University, in partnership with the USDA Risk Management Agency.
Curricular Resources
Oklahoma Ag in the Classroomby Ag in the Classroom activities
Many resources for tying agriculture in to the classroom teachings and farm to school programs. Many lessons outline PASS objectives for the state of Oklahoma.