Document Type

Report

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Keywords

School children -- Food -- Oregon -- Portland, Children -- Nutrition -- Oregon -- Portland, Cooperative marketing of farm produce, Farm produce -- Oregon -- Portland

Abstract

In the 1990s, school districts across the country began to integrate fresh food grown by local producers into school meals and snacks. School food authorities and farmers have broadly defined this new movement, called “Farm to School,” as connecting schools and local and regional farmers. Farm to School programs benefit a community’s economy, improve student nutrition, and strengthen education curricula. Local Lunches seeks to initiate Farm to School efforts in Portland, Oregon, by identifying specific strategies that Portland’s school districts can use to incorporate more local produce in their school meals. This project was conducted under the supervision of Sy Adler, Deborah Howe, Connie Ozawa, and Sumner Sharpe.

Description

Client: City of Portland, Office of Sustainable Development

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8666

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