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The NCDPI, Office of School Nutrition in conjunction with the Farm to School Coalition of North Carolina is highlighting success stories from Buncombe County Schools!

U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Mae Wu was joined by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Chief Deputy Commissioner David Smith in Durham, N.C., to announce the signing of cooperative agreements between USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service and state under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program and the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program.

The NCDPI, Office of School Nutrition in conjunction with the Farm to School Coalition of North Carolina is highlighting success stories from the Brigade Boys & Girls Club for #NCFarmtoSummer!

For National Farm to School and Early Care and Education Month we are excited to highlight a few of our Steering Committee Members.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a two year, $219,458 grant to North Carolina Extension/North Carolina State University and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) to expand our online farm to school course into a Farm to School Collaborative Training Initiative (NCF2SCTI).

This October, join schools, child care centers, and organizations across North Carolina in celebrating National Farm to School Month by crunching into locally grown produce. The 2022 NC Crunch will take place on Wednesday, October 19th. Participants of all ages are invited to crunch with us!

Register for the 2022 NC Crunch! The NC Crunch, co-hosted by the Farm to School Coalition of NC and the NC Farm to Preschool Network and organized by the Growing Minds program at ASAP celebrates agriculture, nutrition, and farm to school activities for Farm to School and Early Care and Education Month in October. 

The NC Department of Public Instruction works with schools and community organizations across the state to offer free, nutritious meals and educational enrichment to kids and teens when school is out.