Regional Lead Agencies - Mid-Atlantic Region

Regional Lead Agencies in eight regions of the country have been established to lead farm to school efforts in the states that comprise the regions. See below for a list of regions, and contact information for the Regional Lead Agencies.

Mid-Atlantic
April White
The Food Trust
One Penn Center, 1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 900
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215)575-0444

Participating states:

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The National Farm to School Program has established Regional Lead Agencies to represent eight major regions in their farm to school efforts. So if your state doesn't have an active program yet, contact your Regional Lead.

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Map of Farm to School Lead Agencies by Region

Farm to School Programs - Mid-Atlantic Region

Alexandria City Public Schools
Food Distribution System: Member of Shenandoah Buying Coop with Merchant's Grocery as prime vendor. All food and supplies are delivered to T.C. Williams HS, which is our central distribution facility...
State: Virginia

Appomattox County Public Schools
Our school system has 4 schools with a total student enrollment of approximately 2,300 students. We go through the bidding process, but have no specific bid for produce. At this time, all produce is...
State: Virginia

Arlington County Schools
The school system has a produce bid and each school orders for itself, off the system-wide bid. Some of the secondary schools are ordering produce off Prince William Co. bid. School system has 31 deli...
State: Virginia

Augusta County Schools
The school system participates in the Blue Ridge Food Coop for purchasing. There are 21 schools & 1 alternative education site in the Augusta County system. A distributor services the system, based ...
State: Virginia

Baltimore City Public Schools
Baltimore City Public Schools has 200+ schools. We serve meals to over 82,000 children daily. The system participates in USDA, MSDE Fresh Fruits and Vegetable program and the DOD. We also purchase ...
State: Maryland

Bath County Public Schools
Central purchasing is conducted for three sites (three schools). Each school has dry storage and refrigerated / freezer storage. Purchases are conducted weekly. The school system is not in a coop an...
State: Virginia

Botetourt County Public Schools
The school system conducts centralized purchasing, billing, and centralized menus with some managers? choice menus. There are eleven schools in system. The system works with a distributor, including ...
State: Virginia

Floyd County Schools
Total Student Population: 2100 Food Distribution System: Joint bid with New River Valley SNP Cooperative, Montgomery County, Pulaski County, Floyd County and City of Radford. Purchasing from local co...
State: Virginia

Goochland County Public Schools
Total Student Population: 2400 Food Distribution System: Our food service department is currently participating in the DOD produce program. We are on a weekly delivery schedule. We do not have a spec...
State: Virginia

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...
State: Pennsylvania

Hanover County Public Schools
The school system uses a distributor(s) but does not have a specific produce bid. The system conducts some open market purchasing of produce. Each site places its own produce orders, based on need. De...
State: Virginia

Harrisonburg City Public Schools
Total Student Population: 4,300 Food Distribution System: We currently purchase the majority of our produce through Standard Produce in Charlottesville. Standard does an excellent job of notifying u...
State: Virginia

Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids (HFHK)
HFHK, Inc. is a non-profit organization established in 2008 to assist schools in creating vegetable gardening programs that are integrated into the schools? science and health curricula. Students pla...
State: Delaware

Henry County Schools
We currently receive produce deliveries 1-2 times per week, depending on the size of the school, and 4 schools will be participating for at least part of the year in the DoD program. Fresh fruits are...
State: Virginia

Homegrown School Lunch Week Kick-off Event
When: Friday, September, 10 2010 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Where: Edgewood Elementary School 2100 Cedar Drive Edgewood, Maryland 21040-2502 (410) 612-1540 Contacts: Daren Zeller, ...
State: Maryland

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...
State: Pennsylvania

Norfolk Public Schools
Number of Schools: 54 Total Student Population: 34,725 Food Distribution System: We have a central warehouse and that delivers to every school every day. Vendors only need to make one drop at the c...
State: Virginia

Orange County Public Schools
Number of Schools: 9 Total Student Population: 5200 Distribution System: Sysco Foods. We also work with a local farmer as a vendor in our system with weekly deliveries to each location. ...
State: Virginia

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...
State: Pennsylvania

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...
State: Pennsylvania

Pittsylvania County Public Schools
Central purchasing is conducted for 18 schools with deliveries made to each to each site. Each school has dry storage and refrigerated / freezer storage. The school system is purchasing fresh produce...
State: Virginia

Prince William County Public School District
Number of Schools: 88 Total Student Population: 73,657 Food Distribution System: We are a centralized system that uses centralize menus and conducts centralized purchasing and billing. We have 1...
State: Virginia

QCC FARMS!
QCC Farms! is an Urban Agriculture Project designed to engage low-wealth city residents in raising organically grown vegetables in underutilized green spaces, while providing nutritional and environme...
State: Virginia

Richmond County Public Schools
Number of Schools: 3 schools Total Student Population: approximately 1200 Food Distribution System: Receive produce once a weekly from our regular distributor. Distributor is selected through a bid...
State: Virginia

Roanoke County Public Schools
Number of Schools: 28 Total Student Population: 15,300 Food Distribution System: We are a centralized system that services 29 schools and 15,300 students. We bid using an ?all or nothing? approach...
State: Virginia

Rockbridge County Public Schools
Number of Schools: 8 Total Student Population: 2798 Distribution System: Normally deliveries are made to individual schools by supplier. Other means are available by our maintenance department....
State: Virginia

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...
State: Pennsylvania

The Farm-to-Table Program at Rappahannock County Public Schools
The mission of the Rappahannock County Public Schools Farm to Table Program is to cultivate students who are good stewards of the earth and productive community members through classroom study of hort...
State: Virginia

The House of Restoration
There is a central delivery site. The schools receives bulk of food from USDA with some outside purchasing of produce items, as need ed. The school provides breakfast and lunch to between 275-450 pu...
State: Virginia

Virginia
Virginia’s Farm to School program is in the exploratory phase. By passing SJR 347 during the 2007 legislative session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secreta...
State: Virginia

Virginia Beach City Public Schools
The school system has a total attendance of 70,000 students. The system uses a main distributor but is permitted to make purchases outside of their main distributor. General food, snacks and beverages...
State: Virginia

West Virginia Farm to School Project
West Virginia Small Farms Center (Monongalia Co.) Integrating West Virginia Specialty Crops into the Public School System through a Farm to School Demonstration Project. This project aims to incr...
State: West Virgina

Westmoreland County Public Schools
As a part of our Wellness Policy and to support local growers and businesses we purchase locally grown produce in season whenever the cost of the produce is close to or the same as prices from our ven...
State: Virginia

Williamsburg-James City County Schools
The school system has 14 schools with a total student enrollment of approximately 11,000 students. The system uses a main distributor, but has no specific bid for produce. Produce is purchased from ...
State: Virginia

Woodbridge School District
The Woodbridge School District in Bridgeville, Delaware in conjunction with the Vegetable Grower's Association of Delaware has been participating with a district-wide Farm to School program since Sept...
State: Delaware