- Community Food Systems Curriculum
- Community Supported Agriculture
- Direct Markets
- Farm To School Programs
- Food Consumption Trends
- Food Hubs
- Food Supply Chain Analysis
- Kitchen Incubators
- Local/Regional Foods
- Scaling up Processing
- Trade Shows
- Practitioner and Education Resource Database
- Resilient Food Systems
Farm To School Programs
Revised February 2023
Iowa Farm to School
- Farm to School and Early Care Final Report 2020-2022
- Best Practices for Farm to School and Early Care Coalition Development
- Emergent Strategies for Cross-Sector Procurement Partnerships
- Midwest Farm to School and Early Care COVID Response Networking Group: Best Practices, Developed Spring 2023
Iowa Farm to Summer Campaigns
The 2022 Iowa Farm to Summer Campaign is Lettuce Eat Lettuce! Download the 2022 Iowa Farm to Summer Campaign Toolkit!
The 2021 Iowa Farm to Summer Campaign was Kick it With Carrots and the Executive Summary is now available here.
The 2020 Iowa Farm to Summer Campaign was called Crunch for Cucumbers. The 2020 Iowa Farm to Summer Campaign Report is now available.
In 2019 the Iowa Farm to Summer Campaign was called Snap for Snap Peas. The activities were hosted in 13 communities and was supported by Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, AgMRC, Iowa Department of Education, FoodCorps Iowa, and Iowa State University Extension & Outreach - Farm, Food and Enterprise Development. Resources and more information can be found below:
- Farm to Summer Meal Site Campaign Toolkit
- 2019 Snap for Snap Peas Site Visits
- 2019 Snap for Snap Peas Evaluation
Additional Iowa Farm to School reports are available below:
- Iowa Local Food Day 2019 (report by FFED for IDALS, 2020) Executive summary | Full report
- Impacts of the Local Produce and Protein Program on the Iowa Food Hub Managers Working Group (February 2021) Executive summary | Full report
- Iowa Local Food Day 2020 Impact Report
- Iowa Farm to School Annual Report (FY 2019-20, Sept. 2020) Executive summary | Full report
- 2020 Iowa Farm to Early Care Report Executive summary | Full report
- Farm to ECE Train the Trainer
- Pick a Better Snack Education Lessons - these are aligned with the Iowa growing season but are applicable in many other states as well.