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News from 2012
Mays Landing, January 30, New Jersey Farm TO SCHOOL NETWORK
“NJ Farm To School Winter Conference” The New Jersey Farm to School Network will host their Winter Conference, “It Takes a Village: Collaborations in Good Food and School Gardens,” February 24 and 25, 2012 at Atlantic Cape Community College, 5100 Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing in Walter E. Edge Hall. With support from the AtlantiCare Foundation, the conference will highlight collaborations in southern New Jersey among higher education, not-for-profit organizations, K-12 schools and community organizers who are bringing good food and nutrition education solutions to the region. The conference will be of interest to educators, healthcare providers, agricultural professionals, philanthropists, and students seeking degrees in education, healthcare, social sciences, agriculture and/or the culinary arts.
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News from 2011
Always CURRENT, New Jersey Farm TO SCHOOL NETWORK
“Growing Gardens – Feeding Minds”
The New Jersey Farm to School Network made this film to highlight farm to school programs in the Garden State
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News from 2010
SEPTEMBER 2010, New Jersey Farm Bureau
NJFB Partners With NJ Farm To School Network
New Jersey Farm Bureau is working to build new relationships as we promote the value Jersey Fresh produce as a part of the national movement towards eating healthy, local, fresh food. One such collaboration is with the New Jersey Farm to School Network, a relatively new organization with a mission to improve school food, promote locally grown produce and educate through school gardens.
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SEPTEmber 22, 2010, PERISHABLENEWS.COM
NJF2S and NJ Farm Bureau Awarded Grant to Produce Seasonality Cards to Promote NJ Produce
(TRENTON) – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded the Christie Administration a $840,373 United States Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant for a variety of uses including education, marketing and promotion of New Jersey agricultural products.
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News from 2009
December 9, 2009, The Packer
National Farm to School Network Has Exploded from Humble Beginnings
When Rodney Taylor was first approached back in the mid-1990s by a parent wanting more fresh, locally grown produce served in a school district, he initially dismissed it. After all, the Santa Monica/Malibu school district for which Taylor was director of nutritional services, already had salad bars in the schools. He thought that was progressive enough. But the parent’s daughter complained she wouldn’t go near the salad bar at her school because the lettuce was brown, carrots were turning white and, well, the colors were just dull.
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APRIL 18, 2009, NJ FARM TO SCHOOL CONFERENCE
Local Coverage of the NJ Farm To School Conference
- Princeton Packet: First New Jersey Farm-to-School Conference slated for April 18 in Lawrence
- MyCentralJersey.com: Farm to School Conference Grows Fresh Connections for Better School Lunches
- CentralJersey.com: Farm Fresh: Nourishing a Farm to School Network
- Princeton Packet: Taking the Lead on School Nutrition
- AmericanFarm.com: State’s First Farm to School Conference Filled to Capacity