farm to school Archives - Ecotrust

Two women standing near and chicken hut on a sunny day with green mountains in the background

What’s new in Food and Farms

FoodCorps moves into the Redd, we tell everyone that Farm to School Counts, and Stanford Social Innovation Review talks about our work.

Jeremy Barnicle
June 16, 2016 17 June 2016

Kids line up in front of a salad bar cart including black beans, carrots, and snow peas at Parrish Middle School in Salem, Oregon.

A better future for kids through healthy, local lunches now

Fixing school lunch can help fix our broken food system. When schools purchase more local food, kids are healthier now and in the future.

Carolyn Holland
November 12, 2015 19 November 2015

Chelsea Clinton stands at the podium and addresses an audience of 100 people in the Billy Frank, Jr. Conference Center

Chelsea Clinton encourages kids to consider the future of food

Chelsea Clinton visits Ecotrust to talk food and inspire kids to take action in a changing world.

Megan Foucht
November 10, 2015 10 November 2015

Middle school student dishes up fresh fruits and veggies from a cafeteria salad bar

Quite a month for farm to school

In the final days of Farm to School Month, the USDA released impressive early results from a nationwide census on farm to school activities.

Katy Pelissier
October 30, 2015 30 October 2015

two students stand in a garden bagging a zucchini

Investing in the future of farm to school

Landmark legislation in Oregon gives schools $4.5 million to bring local food to the table

Stacey Sobell
August 4, 2015 04 August 2015

Ngyen inspects leaves of lacinato kale in preparation for the salad phase of the competition.

Cooking up the future

OCI, a longtime partner of Ecotrust, holds high school cooking competitions where students compete for tuition waivers.

Dory Athey
June 4, 2015 10 November 2015

young girls hands hold freshly picked rainbow chard

Connecting the dots from farm to school

The Oregon Harvest for Schools online portal matches school food buyers with regional producers of Oregon-grown fruits and veggies.

Dory Athey
May 20, 2015 20 May 2015

Three elementary school kids at the Urban Ag Fest post with silly faces.

A school district unites around food

Welcome to the Salem-Keizer School District in Oregon, where 40,000 students are eating more healthy, local food and learning in school gard

Lola Milholland
May 6, 2015 06 May 2015

Portland Public Schools Nutrition Services Director speaks to attendees at an event

Pecking at the barriers for “chicken of the middle” producers

Ecotrust's second Food Forum digs into the overuse of antibiotics in meat production and how to source chicken locally.

Dory Athey
April 15, 2015 21 April 2015

Lunchtime at New Day Preschool. View from above. Two little kids eat from metal plates with salad, rice, winter squash, and a lentil stew.

Helping schools source local chicken

Very few schools can source chicken raised without antibiotics. Ecotrust is working to fix the problem.

Oakley Brooks
December 3, 2014 06 December 2014