Nutrition Improvement Initiative Status for PiE

5/7/2012

Agenda

• School Garden• Nutrition Improvement & Farm to School• Where are we?• Budget

School Garden• School Year 2010-2011

– Built school garden– Largely funded by 2 grants

• Skinny Pancake ($500)• Annie’s noodles ($200)

– Supports summer school and regular school• School Year 2011-2012

– Improved the open house dinner– 1 team in the Junior Iron Chef– Established seed day and seed lab based on best practices– Improvements desired

• Shed• Benches … outdoor classroom• Blueberry bushes

– Just won the Home Depot $500 garden grant

Nutrition Improvement

• Meet appx every 6 weeks• Following VT FEED Farm to School (FTS) materials

on transforming school food programs• Developed mission statement for the school food

program• Surveyed Parents about cafeteria food– Over 50% of families responded. Lots of interest.

• Currently surveying students about cafeteria food

Path to a FTS school

• Establish team - key players + extended team• Educate the community• Great change in the cafeteria program

depends on – Education– Change– Powering thru the resistance – parent and student

Where are we?• Nutrition Education Institute

– Focus is connecting the classroom nutrition education to the cafeteria and to the community

– 3 day training for team of 6– Mentor/consultant for 18 months– This is a big win for HCS

• State of VT FTS implementation grant (appx 20K)– Money will support cafeteria purchasing practices and changing food offerings – Application due in October 2012– If we don’t win…

• School Year 2012-2013– VT Hunger program – Cooking for Life– King Arthur’s bread program– Plus Nutrition Education Institute changes. This will largely drive this group’s

agenda.

Annual Support from PiE

• Garden– $500 per year

• $200 startup• $300 improvement/supplies/celebration

• Open House dinner– $300 per year – who budgets this?

• Cafeteria FTS Training/Conferences– $500 - $1000 per year

• Cafeteria general support ??• Junior Iron Chef support

– $200 per team