Federal Farm To School grant to Center For Rural Affairs in Lyons

(Bancroft-Rosalie School has requested to be included as a pilot school for this project. The project is intended to utilize local farmers as suppliers for the school food service program. Possible supplies include eggs, fruits and vegetables)

The following announcement was released by the USDA today:

The Center For Rural Afffairs “Growing Markets for Farm to School: Networking and training to bring farmers and schools together” will build connections for farm to school programs in rural eastern Nebraska through face‐to‐face networking. Additionally, we will train farmers and school food service personnel in farm product safety and usage, provide individual farm to school facilitation for ten pilot schools, and raise awareness of farm to school, laying foundation for future expansion. The Center for Rural Affairs will hold two farm to school summits in eastern Nebraska. These summits build the personal connections between farmers and schools that we have found to
be essential, while inspiring and informing participants about farm to school possibilities. We
will also hold training sessions in farm food safety and usage for farmers and school food
service personnel, in the form of workshops and webinars. We will select ten schools and
provide individual farm to school facilitation for those schools. Lastly, we will use our robust
media staff to bring statewide and regional attention to our farm to school activities.