Guidelines
The new guidelines define key agreements for providing a safe, nourishing environment for teaching and learning. The guidelines booklet includes clearly written and colorfully illustrated descriptions of each guideline.
It offers helpful suggestions about what works and what doesn’t work in practice toward making schools “a place where our values...
Evaluation for Transformation defines outcomes that farm-to-school has the potential to achieve and offers language, guidelines, and metrics to understand outcomes and assess programs. Beyond the four sectors (public health, community economic development, education, and environmental quality), the framework is structured around three levels of...
This manual presents a general overview of how to implement a salad bar program in an elementary school cafeteria.
Based on lessons learned while launching salad bars on several Los Angeles campuses, it is designed for schools, cafeteria personnel, parents or other community members and covers the full process from planning to maintenance and...
LAUSD has adopted a policy allowing schools to donate unused food to community organizations providing services to families and children. This website provides an FAQ and other information about the provisions and procedures of the policy, which was devised to avoid discarding excess food.
The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force sees "Good Food" as the new paradigm within the food system — encouraging production, distribution, accessibility and consumption of high-quality food to build a healthy, just, and sustainable food system.
A Good Food System prioritizes the health and well-being of our residents; makes healthy, quality food...
This website from the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources offers resources on small-scale production, including soil, planting, irrigation, pest management, and harvesting, as well as information on the business of farming, such as how to market urban farm products.
