Learn how Farm to Early Care and Education can help you enhance health and the educational experience of your children through local food purchasing, hands-on learning, gardening, and family engagement. This resource is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. View Resource »
Eat What You Grow: A School Garden Food Safety Manual
Eat What You Grow! produced a comprehensive list of required food safety protocols for garden operators. By having a set of approved guidelines that all garden participants and foodservice staff implement, school gardens can safely supply our school cafeterias with student and community grown produce and will assure school administrators, teachers, parents and students that the produce grown is handled with the utmost attention to safety. Note that these standards are based on guidelines for Chicago Public Schools. View Resource »
Garden to Cafeteria: A Step-by-Step Guide
This guide from MSU Extension and MSU Center for Regional Food Systems provides an approach for school garden educators and stakeholders, both experienced and newcomer, to successfully source products from the school garden for use in the cafeteria or food program. View Resource »
School Garden Safety Video Trainings
The University of AZ Cooperative Extension created a series of online video trainings about school garden safety. Though designed for AZ schools, these videos are applicable to anyone interested in implementing safe practices in their school garden to minimize microbial food safety hazards. View Resource »
Policy and Protocol for Garden to Cafeteria
This resource list from LifeLab contains policy resources, best practices, and videos relevant to Garden to Cafeteria. View Resource »
