Farm to School Census (F2SC) - State Child Nutrition Directors, attending a webinar

Farm to School Census

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Farm to School Census (F2SC) - State Child Nutrition Directors, attending a webinar

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Farm to School Census

Webinar for State Child Nutrition Directors

March 11, 2013

 

Farm to School Census:
What , Where, When

  • Questionnaire on farm to school activities  

  • Every public SFA in the U.S. 

  • Aiming to be in field March 11, 2013 

 

Farm to School Census:  Why?

  • Set priorities for USDA Farm to School Program 

  • Map of purchases of local food by SFAs  

  • State profiles based on questionnaire responses 

 


Very short for most SFAs

  • For SFAs conducting no farm to school activities, only a few questions 

  • For SFAs conducting farm to school activities, 24 questions 

 

Types of questions  

  • Are you aware of the geographic preference option? 

  • What are the perceived problems associated with local purchasing? 

  • What activities have just started or are starting in the future? 

 

Types of questions, cont.

  • For SFAs with some farm to school activities: 

    • What farm to school activities? 

    • What grades? 

    • Aware of geographic preference option? 

    • Amount of local food purchased? 

    • Types of foods purchased? 

    • Problems encountered? 

 

Help Needed From the States

  • List of public SFAs  

  (Estimated time required – 1 hour)

  • Send email invitation and reminders (Estimated time required – 1 hour total) 

 

Help Needed: List of Public SFAs requested by March 18

  • Name of the SFA  

  • State ID number 

  • Food Service Director name 

  • Email address 

  • Mailing address  

  • Phone number 

  • Whether the SFA is managed by a private food service management company 

  • Whether the SFA contains more than one school district  

  • Names of other districts contained in the SFA  

 

   Help needed:
Invitations and Reminders

  • Forward email invitation to all SFA food service directors 

  • FNS will send invitation to be forwarded on March 11. 

  • Forward reminders every week for 3 weeks 

  • FNS will send reminders to be forwarded. 

 

                Questions?

  • Call Katherine Ralston at 202-694-5463 

  • Email kralston@ers.usda.gov 

 
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