Hi everyone, this is Sofia from Children's bureau

Welcome, school food advocates! Please introduce yourself in the chat and answer the check-in question on our whiteboard.

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Natalie Lareau, F2I Center

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chicken in any form

Pasta

avocado toast

Pasta!

Wild cauliflower

pss

Pasta

I would eat different fruits

pasta!

It's not working for my computer, but potatoes for sure!

Rufina I like tamales

Amanda Harvey with Fresno Unified

Suzanne Lugotoff Oxnard School District

Allana Russell Glide Family Youth Childcare Center SF Cal

Elizabeth Weinlein, FoodCorps Member working with Suzanne in Oxnard!

Janelle Manzano, Farm to School Specialist at San Diego Unified

Elizabeth Lada, FoodCorps, serving in Flint Michigan!

Kassandra Ambriz, City of Temecula

Michael Ackley-Grady, CDFA: Office of Farm to School

Rosa Aide López

Amber from laurel tree charter school

Can someone put the registration link in the chat? I didn’t catch it quickly enough

Beth Love, Eat for the Earth

https://foe.org/schoolfoodwebinars

Yousef Buzayan, Farm to Cafeteria Program Manager, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF)

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Thanks, Emma!

Of course, Pauline!

Scaling Up Report: https://foe.org/resources/scaling-healthy-climate-friendly-school-food/

Dianne Russom from College of the Desert

Oakland USD Case Study: https://foe.org/resources/shrinking-carbon-water-footprint-school-food/

Bethany Markee Child Nutrition Director Orcutt (Santa Barbara, CA)

School Food Toolkit: https://foe.org/school-food-toolkit-resource/

Hi everyone, I'm so glad you are here. I am the consultant working on the Organic School Food Initiative. Can't wait to provide technical assistance to some of you who are ready to start bringing in organic foods. Happy to help.

Yay MDUSD! If you would like to learn more about Eat REAL, visit eatreal.org

follow us @slcusdfood on Instagram :)

i am interested in connecting. You can email me at peace.pops@hotmail.com

Looks yummy, great job SLCUSD and VUSD!

arussell@glide.org

www.organicforall.org

Do you have any questions on why organic food is better for our health and the environment?

Will this presentation be recorded so I can share with interested staff members?

Yes, Suzanne!

If you are interested in Technical Assistance with procuring organic food, please feel free to email me.

Will there be a link so I can print out the Power Point

Leah Smith, Friends of the Earth Consultant on the Organic School Food Initiative: leelasmith@hotmail.com

Hi Alana, yes - we will send out in the follow-up email with resources and the recording.

Please participate in Q&A by typing your question into the chat!

AWESOME WORK KENDRA!!

Do you have any questions on why organic food is better for our health and the environment?

How can we help this movement expand?

How do you food access connect to climate change?

Are the extra cost worth the benefits?

Can you make your presentation available to school districts?

What labels should we look for to make sure we are buying and supporting organic foods?

Do you recommend families to grow their own fruits and vegetables?

I'm curious if the families in your study switched from conventional to organic post-study?

Look for the USDA Organic Label

Can you discuss Regenerative Organic?

Do you have any school aged curricula that you can share with this info?

How does regenerative compare to organic?

How can we make organic produce available through DoD Fresh?

Shoko, great question. We’d love to work with you on that, please be in touch!

Please check out leanandgreenkids.org for nutrition education resources that promote organic and plant-based eating with “lean and green beans” for plant-protein!

Turning Green is an amazing program!!!

I love Lori Davis’s question about school-aged curricula! Would love to hear about that.

conscious kitchen ❤️❤️❤️

Lean and Green Kids has lots of school friendly recipes go to leakandgreenkids.org

@Beth and @Lori, as Barbara and Gail mentioned - Lean and Green Kids! They've got great curricula there.

Side note: supporting you school food services helps them generate revenue to be able to afford organic produce :) (so long as it’s on their agenda to expand upon of course)

The Conscious Kitchen Case Study report will be shared in a follow-up email to participants!

We have a list of minor and major equipment needs and costs in the study

@Pauline Seales - the farming methods that make organic successful (crop rotation, composting, etc) are the same methods that underpin "regenerative agriculture." There is a lot of wonderful work happening under the banner of regenerative ag, but there is no agreed upon definition, and it doesn't necessarily result in reductions in use of synthetic fertilizer or pesticides. However, the Regenerative Organic is a true north star, because it uses organic as a baseline (which is a robust federally-regulated label) and adds additional criteria on top that ensure farmers do all they can to sequester carbon in the soil.

I would like to know more about the milk machine!! Can you link the model?

Our students are building a regenerative agriculture Community Garden in masks over nose and mouth and social distancing. I founded an environmental education organization NGO EARTHCARE. I am a marine biologist in the Bahamas. https://www.earthcare.online/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/EARTHCARE

@amber mascio There are several school districts who have been serving bulk milk. Straus Family Creamery has been a partner in working with school districts, specifically Bay Area and lower income communities, to serve bulk organic milk.

i have been having difficulty sourcing a good milk distributor. I work in humboldt county California

Nice Judi! Well done.

Thank you!

It's our pleasure Barbara!

Does anyone have any questions for Barbara?

Over 300 scratch cook school food recipes with analysis and expandable to your ADP https://www.thelunchbox.org/recipes-menus/recipes?s=eyJwYWdlIjoxLCJzZWFyY2giOm51bGwsImNhdGVnb3J5IjpudWxsLCJzb3J0IjoibmFtZSIsImZvcm1hdCI6ImNhcmQifQ%3D%3D

How has the pandemic impact the work with Conscious Kitchen?

@barbara this is amazing.. such incredible work

Thank you, Barbara!

Well done, Barbara!

Key 5 strategies: • Serving fresh and scratch-cooked meals through investment in workforce and kitchen infrastructure• Expanding organic and regional sourcing through diverse supply chains• Designing plant-forward menus for healthy, cost-effective and climate-friendly meals• Reducing food and packaging waste• Educating and engaging students and the school community

Congratulations! Amazing presentations.

Thank you so much, sorry I have to run! This has been great so far.

Great job, Barbara! Exciting to see how you’re serving your community.

We encourage every group member to introduce themselves and participate by answering the following questions:1) Which of these Conscious Kitchen strategies would be most exciting to you? Or which would be most viable in your school district or community?2) What resources or support would you need to implement these strategies?

We already prepare Meals from scratch

Inspiring

I love the giving spirit and desire to help others during this pandemic

Resistance to serving climate friendly food because they say kids won’t eat it, so taste tests are really importnat

Love that we had two MPH students in our group. We need you all!!

Need for more buy in from staff

My group discussed how school districts could work together to build supply chains in order to procure organic, particularly milk

When bidding the requirement to go with the lowest bid makes it hard to purchase from organic vendors.

Utilize Organic Produce more

Nutrition education and farm time are musts to encourage the kids to eat the food

Bulk food going home to families is a cost savings and is also a way to have more families make food at home - be more involved in providing food. Bulk food enables more $ to be spent on organic.

Lack of necessary facilities and equipment also is a barrier.

Budget/financing - eco-friendly containers, organic product as they are not currently available through DoD Fresh, also priced higher when purchasing produce contractor

Have any of you taken any small steps for your meal programs that you’d like to share with the group?

Everyone in our chat room had a very different situation. one model will never work for everyone this is why Judi

Do you have your own community gardens just asking

earthcare.bahamas@yahoo.com

Judi’s program works

What support would be most helpful for your school meal programs at this time?

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Have any of you taken any small steps for your meal programs that you’d like to share with the group?

Another issue for a small rural district is their small purchases and desire to collaborate with others to find organic vendors. Partnering with other schools in regional partnerships could help.

@Debbie yes I am interested to collaborate

Started with plant based products that look and taste similar to familiar non plant proteins. Must have great flavor and presentation to build trust

USDA Farm to School grant: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=329449 [Due January 8th]

We use our local Food Hub for organic produce. They advocate for livable wages for local farmers, yet their prices are still competitive with conventional produce and vendors. Also we have moved from part time staff positions to full time. Full time invests in our community, builds upon training annually. We are in the RED budget wise due to labor costs. This is important to recognize that many districts do not have this advantage.

We are a rural district.

@Kat Soltanmorad Thank you for your leadership and to your team for all you do for kids!

You're a true rock star, Kat!

We look forward to seeing you at Webinar #2 on January 13th! We’ll give you a preview of our organic roadmap hear from three school districts on their promising practices. Make sure you are registered: https://foe.org/SchoolFoodWebinars

Please share this webinar series with your friends and colleagues!Facebook: http://foe.org/SchoolFoodEventLinkedIn: http://foe.org/SchoolFoodLinkedin

Thanks Judi

If you would like to learn more about the technical assistance we offer through FOE's Organic School Food Initiative, please contact me: Leah Smith leelasmith@hotmail.com

We really appreciate you sharing the webinar via Facebook events, thank you!

Thank you all for attending!

Thanks so much! It was very inspiring!

Thank you!

Thank you to all the presenters

Thank you!

Thank you!

Great Presentation Elizabeth

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Thank you!

Thank you

Thank you nice information.

thanks you!

Thank you Elizabeth, Emma, Kari, Kendra!

Thank you

Look forward to seeing you all again next year!

Thanks everyone!

thanks!

THANK YOU, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Thank you for such an informative webinar!

Yes

Thank you everyone!!

Lori Davis Lori@sanzuma.org

Thank you

Thank you Judi! So good to see you.

Thank you!