Food & Agriculture

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Beginner Farmer Resources: 30 Jan 2009 Version, updates coming soon

Colorado Resources for Beginner Farmers

School Wellness Policies

Federal guidelines required that all schools participating in federal school meal programs establish Wellness Policies prior to the 2006-07 school year. These policies are to address nutrition, nutrition education, and physical activity. Since they must include public participation, they present a great opportunity for community involvement in all three areas.

Farm to School - Purpose and Goals

Purpose
To ensure that our Pre-K through College students consume the highest quality, sustainably produced, culturally appropriate foods from local farms and ranches.

Goals

Farm to School Meeting Minutes

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2009

• 03-26-09Farm to School Meeting
• 02-26-09Farm to School Meeting
• 01-15-09Farm to School Meeting

2008

Farm to School - Website Resources (more to come)

These are some of the most useful website resources for Farm to School and related community food system information.

"The current upwelling of support for localizing our food system, for higher quality, sustainably produced, more nutritious food, for fair prices for producers, and for access to good food for all, calls for a reordering of priorities in our food system—essentially taking ownership and control starting on the local level."

We are pleased to be getting our Beginning Farmer program underway.

One of the obstacles that we face as we try to rebuild our local food system is that, in some cases and at some times, we do not have enough local production to meet the demand. Helping new farmers and ranchers, young or old, who are interested in producing local food and other agricultural products is one part of the solution. Many of the things that our communities can do to support new producers can also help existing producers increase production or move into meeting local food needs.

The time is right to re-establish a healthy community food system here — one that depends on our local farms and ranches, provides the highest quality products possible to local consumers, keeps money in the local economy, and is sustainable for the long run.