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farm to school

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 07 January 2020

A basket of silver bowls, one filled with salad, one with roasted sweet potatoes and parsnips, one with creamy orange soup; in the background, there is a tray of roasted vegetables.

10,000 foot view of a region

Ecotrust and regional farm to school partners consider the next steps in developing and maintaining local food programs in the West.

Stacey Sobell
November 6, 2014 17 March 2015

View from above of a tin bucket held by a child with a few red and golden raspberries in the bottom. Taken at New Day School in Portland, Oregon.

A new day

In Edible Portland's Fall Issue: The littlest eaters grow in the garden, seeding the future of the food movement.

Dory Athey
November 4, 2014 20 October 2016

Gardener Suzanne Stone at New Day School in Portland hands a preschooler a pale for harvesting raspberries from the preschool garden.

New funding for farm to preschool programs in Oregon

Ecotrust gives out 13 mini-grants to boost the farm to preschool movement.

Lola Milholland
August 7, 2014 01 October 2014

Celia Grijalva, Tatiana Tatton, and Natalie Philips, culinary students at Bend High School wearing their chef's coats, work together to break down a pig's leg with a saw.

Students go whole hog

In Edible Portland's Summer Issue: Students in a groundbreaking farm to school program in Bend raise, butcher, and cook the whole hog.

Lola Milholland
June 18, 2014 01 October 2014

Children enjoying lunch at New Day School, Portland

Accelerating farm to preschool

With resources and support, child care providers will connect more children and families with healthy, local foods.

Stacey Sobell
May 13, 2014 30 April 2020

Child waiting for lunch in school with a hand over his mouth.

On International School Meals Day, the view from Scotland

We know that food is such an important part of children’s lives, providing nourishment for bodies as well as minds — it is well proven that children learn better when they have had a good meal and are not troubled …

guest
March 6, 2014 01 October 2014

New dollars to help deepen farm to school impact in Oregon

Ecotrust is awarded a new USDA grant to support the Oregon Farm to School program.

Megan Foucht
November 20, 2013 01 October 2014

Oregon designates $1.2 million for local food in schools

“We envision a day not too far off, when schools across our state will be serving meals sourced primarily from Oregon’s bounty.” In the session concluded on July 8, the Legislature awarded nearly $1.2 million for Farm to School and …

Stacey Sobell
July 12, 2013 01 October 2014

Empowering school food directors to buy local

For the last three years, we’ve transformed the entrance to this conference into a hall of Oregon ranchers and fishermen, farmers and food.

Stacey Sobell
June 20, 2013 10 February 2020

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