The following is a list of sites that may be helpful in learning more about school meal programs and school garden curriculums.
The Edible Schoolyardwww.edibleschoolyard.org
Students at a public middle school grow, harvest, and prepare delicious, seasonal dishes in a garden and kitchen program that is linked to academic curriculum.
The School Lunch Initiative
www.schoollunchinitiative.org
The School Lunch Initiative is reinventing the district's meal program so that students are offered freshly prepared meals in school. It also seeks to establish a kitchen, a garden, and a lunchroom in every school in the district.
Center for Ecoliteracy
www.ecoliteracy.org
A Berkeley-based non profit, Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainability and is a partner in the School Lunch Initiative. This site offers a downloadable wellness policy template for schools/districts and information about curriculum work related to ecological literacy.
USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)
www.usda.gov
The USDA is the funding agency for the national school lunch program. This site provides details about the program requirements and budget, and related research.
CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
www.cspinet.org
CSPI is an advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science. Their site posts the most recent food-related research and a variety of links to food-related policy information.
Slow Food
www.slowfoodusa.org
Slow Food USA has launched a "Slow Schools" initiative, to bring ecological literacy to the core of education. Visit their site to learn about Slow Food projects in schools around the country.
SchoolFood Plus Initiative
www.foodchange.org
The goal of the SchoolFood Plus Initiative is to improve the eating habits, health and academic performance of New York City public schoolchildren while strengthening New York State agriculture through the procurement of local, regional produce.
Harlem Children's Zone
www.hcz.org
The Harlem Children's Zone, a charter school in New York City, features healthy foods made from scratch, utilizing as much local product as possible. This innovative program features universal meals, which means that ALL of the children are eating healthy food.
Engaging Youth
www.thefoodproject.org
The Food Project in Boston was started in 1991 to, " grow a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system." Currently hundreds of teens and volunteers together produce more than a quarter million pounds of chemical free produce every year. The Food Project model could be replicated all across the country.
EATWISE
www.foodchange.org
(Educated and Aware Teens Who Inspire Smart Eating) is a group of young people in New York City who are educating themselves and other students about how eating right can have a positive impact on their health and their entire world.
Food Education Curriculum and Programs
FoodChangewww.foodchange.org
A new nutrition education project being piloted in 100 New York City schools, FoodChange's CookShop® Program is designed to increase awareness and consumption of wholesome foods in the school community, and improve the health and well-being of the school-going population.
Spoons Across America
spoonsacrossamerica.org
Presented by the highly-regarded James Beard Foundation, Spoons Across America is a source for children's culinary education, providing and supporting food and nutrition education to children, families, and teachers through classroom, after-school, and community-based programs.
Better School Food
www.betterschoolfood.org
We support individuals, schools, and communities in their efforts to improve school food. We provide a range of services depending on where you are in the process of school food reform. We'll help you address how to get started, create wellness policies, implement new food standards, and handle situations after the change is completed
Two Angry Moms
www.betterschoolfood.org
Are you sick and tired of packing your kids? lunch box everyday because the cafeteria food is unfit for human consumption? Do you feel guilty when your kids ?buy?? Are you annoyed at all the junk being handed out and sold at school? Are you angry enough to do something about it? We are!
Lunch Lessons
www.lunchlessons.org
National Farm to School
www.foodsecurity.org/farm_to_school.html
National School Lunch Program
www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/default.htm
New York Coalition for Healthy School Food
www.healthyschoolfood.org
Kids Resources
The Bad Fat Brotherswww.badfatsbrothers.com/BFB.html
The Green Squad
www.nrdc.org/greensquad/intro/intro_1.asp
Heifer Fun & Games
www.readtofeed.org/for_kids/fun_and_games
Kids Regen
www.kidsregen.org
The Mouth Revolution
www.mouthrevolution.com
Spatulatta
www.spatulatta.com
Beyond Organic
www.beyondorganic.com
Center for Food Safety
www.centerforfoodsafety.org/index.cfm
Eat Well Guide
www.eatwellguide.org
Eat Wild
www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.htm
Food News
www.foodnews.org
Genetic Engineering Action Network
www.geaction.org/new.html
Local Harvest
www.localharvest.org
Organic Alliance
www.organic.org
Pesticide Action Network
www.panna.org
Educational Tools
California Harvest of the Monthwww.harvestofthemonth.com
Center for Environmental Education
www.ceeonline.org
Cooking with Kids
www.cookingwithkids.net
Family Cook Productions
www.familycookproductions.com
Food for Life
www.farmtrails.org
Linking Food and the Environment
www.ecoliteracy.org
Life Lab
www.lifelab.org
Math in the Garden
www.botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu
Read to Feed
www.readtofeed.org
School Lunch Lottery: Choices for our Children
www.organicvalley.coop
Learn about this Educational Game of Chance
Dr. Greene: Brain Food for Your Kids
www.organicvalley.coop
What's on your child's plate today? Pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene explains why healthy breakfasts and lunches are key to helping kids succeed in school. Read the doctor's "homework" to give kids the nutritional edge they deserve.
A Harvest of Health - It's What's for Lunch!
www.organicvalley.coop
What do an organic garden, a teaching kitchen, and a school lunchroom have in common? Meet "Renegade Lunch Lady" Ann Cooper and get in touch with the School Lunch Initiative