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Date(s) - October 14, 2016
8:00 am - 2:30 pm

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Are you an educator, parent or student? A farmer, producer, distributor or processor? Do you work in food service at a local school, run a school garden or work with an early care center? Are you working to get more local, fresh foods into school cafeterias, strengthening the local food system or educating kids about food and agriculture? Then this free workshop is for you! Lunch and resources included in registration.

Agenda, (speakers to be added):
8 – 8:30 a.m.: Registration
8:30 – 10: Why do farm to school?
………Success stories
………How local can be defined
………Are you already doing it?
10 – 10:15: Break
10:15 – 11:15: Food safety and production
………Gardening and serving food
………Food service
………Growers
………Updates to regulations
11:15 – 12:30: Local food procurement in schools
………Grow your own
………Buy directly from a grower
………Work with a distributor
12:30 – 1: Lunch
1 – 1:45: Table discussions
………Taste testing
………Classroom cooking
………Community support & organizing
………Curriculum
………Funding
………Smarter Lunchroom
1:50 – 2:30: Closing