Regional Lead Agencies - West 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.

West
Michelle Markesteyn Ratcliffe
Ecotrust
721 NW, Ninth Ave. Ste. 200
Portland, OR 97209
(503)476-6080

Participating states:

Nevada

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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.

Click below to learn what is happening in different regions of the country!

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Map of Farm to School Lead Agencies by Region

Farm to School Programs - West Region

'AINA In Schools is a farm to school program based on the island of O'ahu in Hawai'i. The program started in 2006 at five pilot schools. We are now at ten public elementary schools: 'Aikahi, Ahuima...
State: Hawaii

Abernethy Elementary School Program
Abernethy Elementary School in the Portland Public School District operates a holistic farm to school program which incorporates:a) A Scratch Kitchen, where meals from scratch are cooked on site using...
State: Oregon

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 ...
State: California

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...
State: California

ASES- Afterschool Farm to School
The ASES after school farm to school program is an emerging local food program in Buena Park. Buena Park home to Knotts Berry Farm and located in the middle of a historic farm region is working to exp...
State: California

Auburn School District - Child Nutrition Services, Local Farmers and Our School Garden
The Auburn School District began partnering with local farmers in 2006. The district receives fresh fruits and vegetables in a central warehouse and distributes to all 21 schools for use in the schoo...
State: Washington

Bend-La Pine Farm to School Program
The farm to school program at Bend-La Pine is coordinated by Katrina Wiest, Wellness Specialist for the district as well as manager for the local farmers' market. The program consists of once a we...
State: Oregon

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...
State: California

Bethel School District
Farm to School educational activities are being implemented in the Bethel School District in Eugene, Oregon. This program is a collaboration of the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition, School Garden Pr...
State: Oregon

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 ...
State: California

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...
State: California

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...
State: California

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...
State: California

Crow Applegate Lorane School District
Farm to School educational activities are being implemented in the Crow Applegate Lorane school district. This program is a collaboration of the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition and the School Garde...
State: Oregon

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...
State: California

Earthroots Field School
Earthroots Field School offers creative learning environments that nurture the whole person and their connection with the natural world. We offer classes year round for toddlers, homeschoolers, teens,...
State: California

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 ...
State: California

Eugene 4J School District
Farm to School educational activities are being implemented in the Eugene 4J School District. This program is a collaboration of the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition and the School Garden Project of...
State: Oregon

Fort Bragg Unified School District
The farm to school program at Fort Bragg schools includes organic school gardens at each of the main school locations, two of which are now providing produce for the school cafeterias. The other garde...
State: California

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...
State: California

Gallatin Valley Farm to School
Gallatin Valley Farm to School Our Mission To connect schools and local producers in the Gallatin Valley. Through these connections the program will realize many goals, including: ī...
State: Montana

GrowingGreat
GrowingGreat is a nonprofit school garden and nutritional education organization dedicated to inspiring children and adults to adopt healthy eating habits. GrowingGreat started as a demon...
State: California

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...
State: California

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 ...
State: California

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...
State: California

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...
State: California

Idaho Farm to School Program
The Idaho Farm to School Program works towards having Idaho-grown food served to students in Idaho Child Nutrition Programs. Child Nutrition Programs are buying fresh food directly from local farmers ...
State: Idaho

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...
State: California

Kokua Hawaii Foundation
The Kokua Hawaii Foundation initiated efforts in October 2005 to develop a farm to school program in Hawaii.The foundation has formed a Steering Committee comprised of parents, farmers, educators, nut...
State: Hawaii

Larchmont Charter Farm to School
Larchmont Charter has launched an amazing school garden and farm to school program. With a rich and long garden program history, Larchmont Charter began its farm to school program in the 2008 school y...
State: California

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...
State: California

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...
State: California

Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS)
In 2005, the MCPS Farm to School began its pilot year with a series of meal events to introduce Montana grown foods into cafeteria meals in adherence with the seasonality of fresh produce and year rou...
State: Montana

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...
State: California

Novato/San Rafael Unified School Districts
The Novato School Districts’ Farm to School program is headed by Food and Nutrition Services Director, Miguel Villarreal. The district serves approximately 4500 meals a day, all of which have ...
State: California

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...
State: California

Orange County - Growing Healthy Sprouts
Are you interested in walking the fields, picking fresh produce, tasting fresh produce and maybe even releasing a ladybug or two?? Then this program is for you! Center for Food & Justice (CFJ) and Sou...
State: California

Orcas Island Farm to Cafeteria Program
Our Mission: To create and implement a strong Farm-to-Cafeteria Program incorporating local organic food sources, the community and the public school cafeteria; and maintaining a solid base upon whic...
State: Washington

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...
State: California

Planting Seeds of Change
Seven Oak Middle School has two greenhouses where they start seeds for planting in the teaching garden outside the classroom. The students prepare the soil, plant the starts, and tend the garden unti...
State: Oregon

Portland Public Schools
Portland Public Schools is actively working towards institutionalizing farm to school on a district-wide level. Current initiatives are described below: A Harvest of the Month program was implem...
State: Oregon

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...
State: California

Riverside Unified School District
The Riverside Unified School District opened its pilot farm to school salad bar program in March of 2005 at Jefferson Elementary School and now serves students at 26 of the district's elementary sch...
State: California

Rogue Valley Farm to School
RVF2S provides three important functions: farm, nutrition, agriculture and environmental education; hands-on farm, garden and food experiences; the inclusion of locally grown food in school meals. ...
State: Oregon

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. ...
State: California

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...
State: California

Seeds
The “farm to school table” project was inspired by the culinary and global vision of Alice Waters, who founded the “edible schoolyard” in Berkeley, California, an inter-discipl...
State: California

Springfield School District
Farm to School educational activities are being implemented in Springfield Public Schools at Guy Lee Elementary. This program is a collaboration of the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition and the FOO...
State: Oregon

The Healthy Hawaii Initiaive
The Hawaii State Department of Health enacted the The Healthy Hawaii Initiaive in 2000, in order to promote healthier lifestyles through community-based targeted intervention. Funded by the State'...
State: Hawaii

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...
State: California

The Olympia School District?s Organic Choices Program
The Olympia School District piloted an Organic Choices salad bar at Lincoln Elementary School in October 2002. The pilot program was started when Vanessa Ruddy, a concerned parent from Lincoln Element...
State: Washington

The Schoolyard Garden Initiative
The Schoolyard Garden Initiative was created in response to the need for hands-on educational opportunities in the schools, a garden connection for kids, and locally grown food for the community. The ...
State: Alaska

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...
State: California

Ukiah Unified School District
Ukiah Unified School District's Farm to School programs includes organic gardens on campus and a garden/nutritional coordinator who oversees them. Salad bars have been installed in all of the dis...
State: California

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...
State: California

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...
State: California