Farm to School centers around efforts to serve local foods in school and early childcare and education food programs, but applies to a variety of initiatives in Indiana, including school garden programs, fundraisers using local agricultural products, farmer visits to school classrooms and cafeterias and field trips to nearby farms.
Indiana’s Farm to School Profile
Indiana’s Farm to School Profile
- Getting Started with Farm to School
- Menuing Local Foods
- 10 Facts About Local Food in School Cafeterias - This fact sheet from the USDA explains how the agency supports the procurement of local food and which programs can be used to source local.
- Get the Facts About Food Safety
- Procuring Local Foods
IDOE recommends food service directors buy from producers who are registered with the Indiana State Department of Health Food Protection Program and receive Produce Safety Alliance Good Agricultural Practices Growers Training. For a list of registered growers, click here.
In order to sell to schools, local growers must comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act. For a fact sheet, click here.
- Farm to School Month Celebrations
- USDA Resources