The Illinois Harvest of the Month program provides your school with a calendar of local foods that are available throughout the year. To participate, simply serve the monthly item in your school lunch when it’s time! Make sure that you mark that it is a Local Featured Food and give your students more information about […]
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Lesson 3: Harvest Calendar Nutrition
Lesson 3. Harvest Calendar (Page 17) Students will examine the tasks a farmer does on the farm during each month Students will differentiate between growing and harvest seasons Students will identify the annual cycles of work on a farm Students will list foods that are grown in and available for each season. (Nutrition through the seasons). Students will […]
Kickoff #FarmtoSchoolMonth with the Prairie Farm Corps
October is Farm to School Month, and what better way to start the month off and celebrate, than to read an inspiring story about the impact of Farm to School at the Liberty Prairie Foundation and their youth program Prairie Farm Corps. Food Revolution Day is a movement with about 1.6 million members across 196 countries that […]
Locate Local Food Sources
Click here to review the distributor toolkit for IL Harvest of the Month, our primary program. This toolkit can assist you when sourcing local foods for distribution into feeding sites and commercial customers. Our toolkit includes a complete listing of regional produce aggregators and food hubs. The toolkit is open and available to all distributors […]