REMINER: October 20 Webinar: School Gardens & Food Services

[Tristana Pirkl]

Hi Everyone, 

Reminder to check out the webinar on School Food Service and School Gardens next Wednesday on 10/20 at 11am PT/2pm ET. We've got a great lineup of folks from around the country! Details below!

Best, 

Tristana

Tristana Pirkl Director School Garden Support Organization (SGSO) Network (She/Her) www.sgsonetwork.org

& Other Farm to School Month Resources 

Food Lab at Pacific Elementary in Davenport, CA REMINDER October 20 Webinar: School Food Service and School Gardens On October 20 at 11am PT/2pm ET,  hear from a number of case studies on how school gardens can be intertwined with the work of school nutrition programs. Check out the great presenter lineup:  Jeannine Rizzo - Student Wellness Specialist, Palm Beach County School District A’Keti Mayweather - Wellness Coordinator, Baldwin County School District Dominic Machi - Mount Diablo Unified School District Food Service Director Alise Echele - Healthy Schools Project Coordinator, Ventura Unified School District Bill Whitcomb - Whitsons Culinary Group Andrea Alma - USDA Farm to School Regional Lead, Mountain Plains Regional Office Summer Skillman - Program Analyst, USDA Food and Nutrition Services Register for the Webinar

[tristana]

Hi Everyone, 

We had a great webinar yesterday on the connections between School food service and school gardens. 

Here are the relevant resources: 

• Recording is on our webinars page in the Archived section
• Handout from the presentation with relevant links, including a link to the presentation slides

There were a couple of follow up questions. If you have answers or suggestions for these questions, please respond to this thread and we can all learn more!

1. Does anyone know of guidelines on ways to provide school garden produce that has been preserved to serve for school lunches-- such as canned tomato sauce or pickles, or relish, etc.?
2. There are some food service management companies (FSMC) that don't allow school garden produce to be used in the cafeteria. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to work with or around this? 

Thanks!

Best, 

Tristana

Tristana Pirkl
Director
School Garden Support Organization (SGSO) Network
(She/Her)
www.sgsonetwork.org

[John Fisher]

Here are two resources to address webinar attendee questions:

Q: There are some food service management companies (FSMC) that don't allow school garden produce to be used in the cafeteria. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to work with or around this?

A: On this page of Garden to Cafeteria Policy and Protocol Resources ( www.lifelab.org/garden-to-cafeteria) you can find

Sodexo Food Management Company protocols: School Garden Safety Protocol and School Garden Weekly Checklist

This would be a good example to share with your school food management company. I would also suggest direct conversations with the management company where you share the protocol, program examples and videos shared on this page Garden to Cafeteria Policy and Protocol Resources ( www.lifelab.org/garden-to-cafeteria) 

Q: Someone asked for samples of Mount Diablo Unified School District Recipes

A: Mt. Diablo Unified School District Recipes

John Fisher

Life Lab

SGSO Network