School Meals and Edible Schoolyards
BACK TO: Community Food Organizing Models
- New York Times Op-Ed by Alice Waters and Katrina Heron
No Lunch Left Behind
- Center for ecoliteracy
Rethinking School Lunch
Rethinking School Lunch Guide
School Food, Public Policy, and Strategies for Change by Marion Nestle
- Healthy School NYC
A group of New York City public school parents concerned with food and health issues in our city’s schools. Our first effort is a petition drive to convince the Office of School Foods to ban milk that contains artificial growth hormones.
- NY Farms!
Farm to School
- Massachusetts Public Health Association
Community Action to Change School Food Policy: An Organizing Kit
- Better School Food
A group of dedicated parents, educators and health professionals committed to working with local communities to improve meals and increase awareness of the connection between good food, good health and a student’s ability to learn effectively.
- New York City Office of School Food and Nutrition Services
SchoolFood
- Columbia University Center for Food & Environment
Linking Food and the Environment (LiFE) Curriculum Series
- Council on the Environment of New York City
Learn It, Grow It, Eat It
- Food Bank for New York City
CookShop for Teens: EATWISE
- New Haven Food Policy Council
A Challenge to the Health of Our Young People:
A Primer on Federal, State and Local Policies that Impact School Food
- Berkeley, CA
School Lunch Initiative
- Santa Barbera, CA
s’Cool Food Initiative
- Chez Panisse Foundation
Envisions a school curriculum and school lunch program where growing, cooking, and sharing food at the table gives students the knowledge and values to build a humane and sustainable future.
- Chef Anne Cooper, The Renegade Lunch Lady
Lunch Lessons
- Two Angry Moms
A documentary film that asks the question: What happens when two “fed-up” moms try to change the school lunch program?
