HISTORY

The West Virginia Farm to School Program is a collaboration of West Virginians working together to create synergistic partnerships to advance farm to school efforts across the state. Early successes include joint sponsorship of trainings, workshops, and conferences to foster exchange of information for and between food service staff and farmers. Collaboration has also resulted in the creation of funding sources, the coordinated delivery of resources, the development of publications, fact sheets, videos, and shared dissemination of information through various media outlets.  

 

Together, these partners explore the opportunities for a sustainable community-focused and education-based system for food production that can be expanded and implemented statewide. Our goals are to grow the next generation of farmers in West Virginia and to increase the amount of local foods served in our schools. 

 

MISSION

Grow. Educate. Sell.

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PARTNERS

West Virginia Farm to School Program is supported on a statewide level by a partnership between:

• West Virginia Department of Agriculture

• West Virginia Department of Education

 

VISIT OUR PAST PROJECTS

We have been working to support and expand Farm to School efforts across the state since 2011 in this capacity. Some of our past and continued projects include: 

• Junior Cast Iron Cookoff

• Value Chain Cluster Initiative

• Specialty Crop Block Grant Projects

• ProStart Chef Training