School Case Studies and Resources

For Center for Ecoliteracy publications, technical resources, and articles related to healthy school lunch programs, visit www.ecoliteracy.org.

Publications

Find these stories of exemplary schools on line at the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Exemplary Schools and Projects

The Art of a Watershed: "The Tenderness of Cranes"
River of Words, Berkeley, CA
by Sara Marcellino

EcoStars
Mary E. Silveira School, San Rafael, CA
by Jeanne Casella

The Edible Schoolyard
Martin Luther King Middle School, Berkeley, CA
by Michael K. Stone

It Changed Everything We Thought We Could Do
STRAW: Teachers and Students Restoring a Watershed, Novato, CA
by Michael K. Stone

Multiple Harvests
Laytonville High School, Laytonville, CA
by Naomi Lubick

A School Community for Children
Park School, Mill Valley, CA
by Leslie Comnes, with interviews by Jerry Kay

For general information about farm-to-school programs, including case studies, publications, information on conferences, and other farm-to-school resources, visit the Community Food Security Coalition.

Find these case studies and publications on line at the Community Food Security Coalition at: www.foodsecurity.org/farm_to_school.html#casestudies.

Case Studies

Publications

Community Food Security Resource Kit: How to Find Money, Technical Assistance, and Other Help to Fight Hunger and Strengthen Local Food Systems, Free, $4 shipping.

Healthy Farms, Healthy Kids: Evaluating the Barriers and Opportunities for Farm to School Programs, $12 plus $4 shipping

Getting Food on the Table: An Action Guide to Local Food Policy, $10 plus $4 shipping

National Farm to School Program

Center for Food and Justice at Occidental College

Find these National Farm to School Program case studies and other publications and “how-to” manuals at: www.farmtoschool.org/pubs.htm.

Case Studies

Cooking With Kids Case Study. Thonney, Patricia and Erica Reinhardt. Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University 2004. (PDF)

Farm to School: Case Studies and Resources for Success. Harmon, Alison . 2004. (PDF)

Fresh From the Farm and Into the Classroom. Haase, Margaret, Andrea Azuma, Robert Gottlieb, and Mark Vallianatos. The Center for Food and Justice. January 2004. (PDF)

A Salad Bar Featuring Organic Choices: Revitalizing the School Lunch Program . Flock, Paul, Cheryl Petra, Vanessa Ruddy, Joseph Peterangelo. Olympia School District. April 2003. (PDF)

The Crunch Lunch Manual: A case study of the Davis Joint Unified School District Farmers Market Salad Bar Pilot Program and A fiscal Analysis Model. Brillinger, Renata, Jeri Ohmart and Gail Feenstra. University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, March 2003. (PDF)

The Oklahoma Farm-to-School Report 2003 includes the survey, a question-by-question analysis of survey results along with information on farm-to-school programs around the country, an Oklahoma nutrition profile, and a list of food crops produced in Oklahoma. (PDF)

Direct Marketing to Schools— A New Opportunity for Family Farmers. Ohmart, Jeri L. . UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. July, 2002. Read

Florida Farm to School Project Case Study. Kalb, Marion. Community Food Security Coalition. 2002. (PDF)

Healdsburg Unified School District's Farm to School program Case Study. Kalb, Marion. Community Food Security Coalition. 2002. (PDF)

New Mexico Farm to School case study, by Marion Kalb. 2002. (PDF)

Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District's Farmers Market Salad Bar Case Study. Kalb, Marion. Community Food Security Coalition. 2002. (PDF)

Healthy Farms, Healthy Kids: Evaluating the Barriers and Opportunities for Farm to School Programs. By Andrea Misako Azuma and Andrew Fisher. Community Food Security Coalition, 2001. Provides case studies of programs at the K-12 level and includes policy recommendations. Can be ordered for $12 plus s/h. Visit

A Case Study of The Davis Farmers’ Market: Connecting Farms and Community. Podoll, Heather. UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. March, 2000. Read