The mighty mushroom, grown indoors year-round, is ideal for hands-on demonstrations, classroom growing experiments, and tasty scratch-made meals that support your Farm to School Program! To maximize your efforts and minimize your workload, we have several easy to implement resources available.

Mar 11, 2025 · The Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS) program, which allocates approximately $660 million for schools and childcare centers to purchase food from local farms, has been cut ...

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Mar 13, 2025 · Ways to improve school lunch nutrition 03:50. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting two federal programs that provided about $1 billion in funding to schools and food banks to buy food ...

These easy-to-use nutrition education lessons are all about feeding your immune system! Use our resources to host a fun, quick activity where your students can learn more about eating a variety of foods throughout the week. Use our bingo card for a fun competition to try new foods.

Aug 29, 2018 · School lunch in America is known for being unhealthy, but it doesn't have to be that way. Discover 10 ways you can help improve the food served at schools.

8 hours ago · Michigan school and agricultural leaders want the food atop plates in school lunchrooms to reflect the diversity of the state's farms: crunchy apples, starchy potatoes. And, obviously, deep red ...

Mar 11, 2025 · The School Nutrition Association said $660 million of that money was for schools to make the local food purchases. In December 2024, the USDA announced a $1.13 billion investment for the programs.

Schools participating in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs must meet the following standards. More fruits and vegetables: Since 2012, schools offer students larger portions of fruits and vegetables with every lunch.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — New York City Public Schools students and parents have been complaining to their representatives about the decline in food quality and quantity in school cafeterias, and photos depicting moldy fruit, unidentifiable mush and spoiled cream cheese have backed up the claims.