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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