Feb 14, 2024 | Blog and Resources
The first half of the 2023-2024 school year in Northeast Ohio was chalk full of tasting Totally Tasty local items! Among nine different school districts over 4,000 students tried something new or local. Some of the foods we tried include: Shagbark chips and...
Jan 10, 2024 | Blog and Resources
If your child is a picky eater a great way to introduce and encourage them to try new foods is to involve them in the planning and cooking of meals. Here are some tips to get started: Bring them to the grocery store with you. Let them pick out a new protein or produce...
Dec 7, 2023 | Blog and Resources
The holidays are in full swing, and you know what that means. The cold winter days are sure to follow! You may think “what does this mean for local produce?” “There is no way we can grow crops in the frigid Ohio winters”. Well, good news! Some crops actually grow...
Nov 21, 2023 | Blog and Resources
The holiday season is in full swing, and so are the holiday recipes! From raw meat and poultry to ready-to-eat items, like fruit and vegetable there are food safety best practices to stay safe from foodborne illnesses. Foodborne illnesses are infections or diseases...
Oct 19, 2023 | Blog and Resources
Samia Hamdan and Alison Guzik with the Ohio Feed Our Future taste test event set up. On October 12, 2023, the School Nutrition Association, Chapter 43, in Cleveland, Ohio hosted a meeting that brought together a diverse group of professionals to discuss Farm to School...
Oct 11, 2023 | Blog and Resources
See what we did there?! All jokes aside, the first Farm to School Census since 2019 is out now and it is really important that schools complete it. This survey is the largest of its kind and collects information from more than 18,000 public, private and chart schools...
Oct 2, 2023 | Blog and Resources
Feed Our Future and our partners work together to ensure ALL children have access to fresh, healthy, and when available local food. No matter where they go to school. With this in mind, we always do our very best to make buying local foods as easy as possible...
Oct 27, 2022 | Blog and Resources
The Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP) program supports partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local or regional food systems. The program focuses on strengthening the regional food economy through collaboration and...
Oct 5, 2022 | Blog and Resources
Local purchasing is at the heart of Feed Our Future’s work. It is an investment in the local food economy and a way for us to improve diet quality for kids. As a part of this process, we work to make it as easy as possible for our school nutrition partners to...
Jul 14, 2022 | Blog and Resources
Purchasing food for school meal programs is no small feat. The challenge is real. Even more so in our current reality – out of stock inventory, skyrocketing prices, uncertainty of waivers and reimbursement, and an incredible frustration of how to make it work....
