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Home Grown School Lunch Week Toolkit
Posted: September 20, 2009
Here are resources for schools to use as they plan for Home Grown School Lunch Week.
Finding Local Food
- Decide what food item you are interested in using for your event. Need ideas?
- Local watermelon or muskmelon slices
- Local veggies on your salad bar
- Local apples or grapes
- Build your own salad or wrap with local fixings
- Pumpkin bars using local squash or sweet potatoes
- Zucchini bread or muffins with local summer squash
- Shepherd's pie with local onions
- Roasted local sweet potatoes
- Massachusett's Farm to School Cookbook for Schools
- Iowa Farm-to-School Web site
- Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch
- Use this website to find producers near you. Click on Find Local Food tab.
- Call our Farm to School coordinator for assistance, Johnice Cross at 563-380-9848.
Here are some resources for you to download and print:
