Often times we highlight very large school districts that has a meal program that offers food that is made from scratch whenever possible.  Because those places are large districts with many resources, there might be more opportunities to get local, fresh food into the cafeteria.  But what about a very small, rural school? How can they do the same thing with limited resources?  Join us as we interview Emilia Miguel with "Food Lab," from Pacific Elementary in Davenport, CA. It's a school where the Students are the chefs, and create their own local, nutritious meals for the National School Lunch Program. 

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Many School Gardens are able to produce an abundance of food.  Usually they are able to bring the produce right in to the cafeteria..  But what if you have an overabundance of something?  How can you save it? Can you can it SAFELY? What are the rules and regulations?   Join us as we have a discussion with a Master Food Preserver Jared Hibbard-Swanson from Oregon State University Extension, as we discuss what to do and where to get help preserving garden produce. 

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Chef.  Innovator.  Leader... Cranky Parent?  There are many words to describe Bertrand Weber.  Join us as he shares his journey from an "angry parent" who was concerned about his kid's school meal to stepping up and doing something about it.. transforming the meal experience at Minneapolis Public Schools, and inspiring the country to rethink how they serve food to students. 

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Today our special guests are Chef Asata Reid and Erin Croom of "Small Bites Adventure Club" from Atlanta, GA. 

Listen to them as they share their journey and passion of how they developed a truly one-of-a-kind, innovative program to educate children about nutrition and where their food comes from.

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So you have a school garden.  You grow beautiful fruits and veggies.  Great!  Now what?  Once you've mastered your "green thumb" and want to try the one of the next steps in school gardens, many programs are having success with raising chickens (and other "critters") in the school garden.  

We talk with Sam Ullery from Washington DC's Office of the State Superintendent of Education, as he was the first person to explore the legal and safe way to do this at a state agency level. 

Show notes and much more will be available later this week on our Oregon State University hosting site.  Get there by searching "Farm to School Podcast OSU." 

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Miguel Villareal is the Interim Director of the National Farm to School Network.  From humble beginnings in a farm worker's family, his journey led him to athletics, a software salesman, and finally as a Nutrition Services Director for a large school district in California.  A moment where he was forced to administer a soft drink contract to potentially thousands of students forced him to rethink what school foodservice could be all about. Join us as we chat with Miguel on his journey to change the nutrition of students across the country. 

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Often school garden programs and school cafeterias operate very independent and separately from each other.  Join us for a wonderful example of a program that works in harmony: West Linn-Wilsonville School District.  Our Guests include School Garden Coordinator Helena Killstrom and Nutrition Services Manager Lindsey  Flores.

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Join us as we interview Texas A&M University's Randy Seagraves.  Randy is the Program Specialist and Curriculum Director of the International Junior Master Gardener Program.  Find out how America's youth are inspired and transformed by this wonderful program. 

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Join us for our second part of our interview with the co-founders Ciara Byrne and Kim MacQuarrie of "Green Our Planet," a non-profit based in Las Vegas, Nevada that uses school garden and hydroponic STEM programs that teach students about sustainability and financial literacy.  They have an amazing story of how they transformed what did as successful videographers to end up creating this nonprofit to better their part of the Southwest.. and the country! 

This is part two of a two-part episode. 

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Join Rick as he visits with the co-founders Ciara Byrne and Kim MacQuarrie of "Green Our Planet," a non-profit based in Las Vegas, Nevada that uses school garden and hydroponic STEM programs that teach students about sustainability and financial literacy.  They have an amazing story of how they transformed what did as successful videographers to end up creating this nonprofit to better their part of the Southwest.. and the country! 

This is part one of a two-part episode. 

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