Farm-to-School Advisory Group

 The Farm-to-School Advisory Group

Purpose

• Increase the amount of healthy and local food provided to children.
• Promote the healthy and local school food options at our schools.
• Research additional funding to support Farm-to-School activities.
• Research ways to fund and support classroom curricula associated with Farm-to-School.

Basis for Establishment

The basis for establishment of the advisory group is district/parent/community interest in purchasing healthy local foods for the school food service program as well as the recent availability of local, state, and federal funding and technical assistance for a Farm-to-School program.

Committee Type

Farm-to-School is an Advisory Group that makes recommendations for improvements to the Food Services Department and Director Mark Dalton.

Meeting Information

The Farm-to-School Advisory Group meets on the second Tuesday of the month at
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Members

• Mark Dalton - Food Service Director and Chair
• Jessica Sankey - Parent, Group Organizer
• Mardi Solomon - Parent, Group Organizer
• Bill Angel - Parent
• Sara Bashaw - Parent
• Priscilla Brotherton - Parent
• Lisa Dailey - Parent
• Mystique Grobe - Parent
• Gretchen Hoyt - Representative from local agriculture
• Jamie Imus - Parent
• Gail Knops - Parent
• Mollie O'Neill - Teacher
• Kelly Pederson - Parent
• Mikaela Pederson - Student
• Laura Plaut - Parent, Representative from Common Threads School Garden Collective, Laura@Commonthreadsfarm.org
• Caprice Teske - Parent