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4 | District | Facility Name | Project Name | Project Description | District | Facility Name | Project Name | Project Description | District | Facility Name | Project Name | Project Description | District | Facility Name | Project Name | Project Description | District | Facility Name | Project Name | Project Description |
6 | Bloomfield | All Bloomfield Public Schools | Spiced Butternut Squash from Oxen Hill Farm | Butternut squash from Oxen Hill Farm will be featured on the menu | Bloomfield | All Bloomfield Public Schools | Zucchini, Tomato, & Onion Medley from Oxen Hill Farm & Auer Farm | Zucchini, tomatoes, and onions from Oxen HIll Farm & Auer Farm will be featured on the menu | Bloomfield | All Bloomfield Public Schools | Collard Greens from Sub Edge Farm | Collard greens from Sub Edge Farm will be featured on the menu | Bloomfield | All Bloomfield Public Schools | Mashed potatoes & Sweet Pepper Salad from Auer Farm | Mashed Potatoes and Sweet Pepper Salad from Auer Farm featured on the menu | Bloomfield | All Bloomfield Public Schools | Side Salad from Oxen Hill Farm | Side Salad made with produce from Oxen Hill Farm will be featured on the menu |
7 | East Hampton | Center Elementary School | Local Yogurt Tasting | Sampling Local Yogurt | Cromwell | Woodside Intermediate | Meet the Farmers | Farmers will visit to speak with students and also doing a taste-testing activity. | Branford School District | Indian Neck School | Farmer Visit | Local farmer Q&A with tasting | East Hampton | East Hampton Middle School | Corn Shucking Contest | Students from each grade level will race to shuck corn. There are trophies for one homeroom per grade level. | Branford School District | Mary T Tisko Elementary | Farmer Visit | Local farmer Q&A with tasting |
8 | East Hampton | All East Hampton Schools | Local on the Menu | Wilkinson Farm Maple Syrup, Yogurt Hastings Farm, Himmelstein Farm Potatoes | East Hampton | East Hampton High School | Sampling Event | Sampling Event | Coventry | George Hersey Robertson School | GHR School Garden Ribbon Cutting | Join us to celebrate the grand opening of our CT Grown for CT Kids Grant funded school garden! | East Hampton | All East Hampton Schools | Local on the Menu | Cobblestone farm (peppers), Apples (Beckett Farms) | Greenwich | New Lebanon Elementary School | Harvest of the Season: Kale Chips | Harvest of the Season is the launch of the NLES Farm to School Initiative that will highlight a vegetable each season. October's HOS vegetable highlight is carrots with maple. We invited legislators, administrators and other stakeholders. |
9 | Greenwich | New Lebanon Elementary School | Harvest of the Season: Carrots with Maple | Harvest of the Season is the launch of the NLES Farm to School Initiative that will highlight a vegetable each season. October's HOS vegetable highlight is carrots with maple. We invited legislators, administrators and other stakeholders. | Greenwich | New Lebanon Elementary School | Harvest of the Season: Buffalo Cauliflower | Harvest of the Season is the launch of the NLES Farm to School Initiative that will highlight a vegetable each season. October's HOS vegetable highlight is carrots. We invited legislators, administrators and other stakeholders. | East Hampton | Memorial Elementary School | Dress Like a Farmer Day | Students will dress like a farmer and then be able to taste and sample local foods during the day. | East Hartford | Sunset Ridge Middle School | Sunset Ridge School Garden Ribbon Cutting | We will have a ribbon cutting for our newly built school garden. We also would like to have a small speaking portion to celebrate the new addition to the school. After the ribbon cutting, a group of students will plant garlic in the garden beds. We will also be serving local foods for lunch in the cafeteria that day, so visitors will be able to sample a local food prepared by our new executive chef. | LEARN | Regional Multicultural Magnet School | Taste Test | Taste Test with seasonal produce from Healthy PlanEat |
10 | Klingberg Family Centers | Raymond Hill School | Let's Root for Each Other, and Watch Each Other Grow! | Reading a book about farming and planting seeds with the students | Klingberg Family Centers | Raymond Hill School | Let's Root for Each Other, and Watch Each Other Grow! | Reading a book about farming and planting seeds with the students | East Hampton | All East Hampton Schools | Local on the Menu | Romaine salad, H2O farm | Meriden | All Meriden Public Schools | Local on the Menu | Locally made Salsa | Meriden | All Meriden Public Schools | Local on the Menu | Local Apples from High Hill Orchard |
11 | Meriden | All Meriden Public Schools | Local on the Menu | Local Apples from Roger's Orchard | Meriden | All Meriden Public Schools | Local on the Menu | Local Pears from Roger's Orchard | Holly Pond School | Holly Pond School | Apple Taste Test | Tasting apples from local farms that have been brought in by parents | Middletown | All Schools | Local food taste test (throughout the week) with our executive chef and our Farm to School Coordinator | Taste Test of a variety of local foods at all schools throughout the week | Milford | All Milford Public Schools | Showcasing Local on the Menu | We will have local food on the menu each day for CTG4CTK Week! |
12 | Milford | All Milford Public Schools | Showcasing Local on the Menu | We will have local food on the menu each day for CTG4CTK Week! | Middletown | Beman Middle School | Grand Opening of School Garden | Introduction and grand opening of one of our 10 school gardens including hydroponics, raised beds and a rooftop garden to students and staff | Kids of Chatham Org., Inc. (KOCO Child Care Center) | Kids of Chatham Org., Inc. | KOCO Harvest Recipe Demos: Easy, Fresh & Yummy! | Students and their families will be able to sample easy, healthy food they can incorporate in their homes featuring samples of air fryer Asian broccoli, caramel apple smoothies, and quick chop peach salsa. | Milford | All Milford Public Schools | Showcasing Local on the Menu | We will have local food on the menu each day for CTG4CTK Week! | Regional District 18 | LOLHS/LOLMS | Tasting Event | Black Futsu Squash |
13 | New Britain | All Elementary Schools | School Farmers Market | Students in Grades 4 and 5 are given funds to shop on the ROOTS farmers market when it visits their school. | Milford | All Milford Public Schools | Showcasing Local on the Menu | We will have local food on the menu each day for CTG4CTK Week! | Meriden | All Meriden Public Schools | Local on the Menu | Local Mozarella & Locally made Pesto | New Milford | Schaghticoke Middle School | Taste Test | Taste test of Delicata Squash | Wolcott | Wolcott High School | Local Hot Chocolate Tasting | We will be holding a local hot chocolate tasting event featuring Mountain Dairy Chocolate Milk during lunch service and providing a student survey. |
14 | New Britain | Pulaski Middle School | Meet the Farmer | CT Food 4 Thought Hydroponic Lettuce farm speaks to 7th grade science class | New Britain | Slade Middle School | Meet the Farmer | CT Food 4 Thought Hydroponic Lettuce farm speaks to 7th grade science class | Milford | All Milford Public Schools | Showcasing Local on the Menu | We will have local food on the menu each day for CTG4CTK Week! | New Milford | Schaghticoke Middle School | Sample Day of Local Squash | Taste Taste at the Middle School. Featured Item is Delicata Squash from Desantis Farm. Taste taste will be run by Nutrition Support Manager and our Farm to School Coordinator. | Woodbridge | Beecher Road School | Lettuce Tasting | H20 Farm will be showcasing and sampling the hydroponically grown varieties |
15 | New Milford | All New Milford Public Schools | CT Grown For CT Kids Week | Offering locally grown vegetables and fruits all week. Also offering Pan De Oro Tortilla Chips from Hartford and CT Fair Bread from Torrington. Local farms featured: Conundrum Farm, CT Food 4 Thought, Desantis Farm, March Farms, Massaro Community Farm and Roger's Orchards | Rocky Hill | Rocky Hill High School | Pesto Making - PM | Botany students will be making pesto with pasta and creating samples to share on Oct 7 in school cafe. | New Britain | Smalley Elementary School | Bee-yond Delicious: The Great Apple Crunch | Farmer from Preli Farm will be talking to all the 2nd grade students, students will read "The Apple Orchard Riddle" book and then we will all go outside to do an apple crunch with apples from the farm. | Regional District 07 | Regional District 07 | Farm To School | Taste testing farm produce from Barden Farm | ||||
16 | Old Saybrook | Kathleen E Goodwin School | Farm Day | Traveling farm, possible dairy farmer with dairy cow, ~3 CT farms showing off what they grow and why. Last farm (Native American) will have a tasting of an item made from one of their products and have the NA Foodways Booklet to tie into Indigenous Peoples Day the following week. (4 hours) | Rocky Hill | Rocky Hill High School | Salsa Making - AM | Students will be making fresh local salsa. Salsa will be used at lunch on Oct 8 and in taste tests. | New Milford | New Milford Middle School | Sample Day of Local Squash | Taste Taste at the Middle School. Featured Item is Delicata Squash from Desantis Farm. Taste taste will be run by Nutrition Support Manager and our Farm to School Coordinator. | Regional District 18 | LOLHS/LOLMS | Tasting Event | Pumpkin Hummus | ||||
17 | Regional District 17 | Haddam-Killingworth Middle School | Local Apple Giveaway | Free local apple available for every student | Thomaston | Thomaston School District | Student Apple Crunch | Students create education info about the benefits of apples, provide recipes and apple picking locations in CT for other students to explore. The Food Service Director and Health Education Teacher participate in an apple crunch with students signifying the importance of good nutrition to promote health and wellness. Students can try a variety of apples from the state. | Regional District 07 | Regional District 07 | Eat Local | Bricin's Fried Dough | Regional School District 17 | Killingworth Elementary School | Local Lettuce Feature | Featuring local lettuce on the menu | ||||
18 | Regional District 17 | Haddam-Killingworth High School | Local Apple Giveaway | Free local apple available for every student | United Way of Coastal and Western CT & UCONN | Danbury Public Library | Seedlings to Sprouts - Reaching ECE parents | EFNEP hands-on nutrition education class for ECE parents in partnership with United Way's Seedlings to Sprouts program. | Regional District 17 | Burr Elementary | Local Potato Feature | Featuring local potato wedges on the menu | Regional School District 17 | Haddam-Killingworth High School | Taste Test | Locally grown food taste test | ||||
19 | Regional District 18 | Lyme Consolidated Elementary School | Apple Crunch Day | National event - Crunch into local apples | Woodbridge | Beecher Road School | Corn Shucking | All students will get the change to shuck a fresh ear of corn from Grassy Hill Farm. The following day the corn will be cooked and all students will have a chance to eat a ear of fresh corn. Learning about how corn grows, and pollination. | Regional District 18 | Center School | Center School Farmers Market | Farmers Market | West Haven Child Development Center | Massaro Community Farm | Field trip to Massaro farm | Field trip | ||||
20 | Rocky Hill | Rocky Hill High School | Basil Harvest | Students will be harvesting their basil plants from the greenhouse. | Regional District 18 | Lyme Consolidated Elementary School | Lucky Tray Day | Seed Starter Giveaway | ||||||||||||
21 | United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut | United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut | CTG4CTK Week | Family child care providers will put together activities for parents and children to taste test | Regional District 18 | Mile Creek Elementary School | Lucky Tray Day | Seed Starter Giveaway | ||||||||||||
22 | Wolcott | Alcott School | Harvest of the Month | For the month of October to celebrate Farm to School Month, the library will showcase Farm to School books, the music teacher will teach an apple song to students, the art teacher will be making apple/harvest themed art to display in the cafeteria and the Project Explore teacher will be creating a harvest bulletin board. | Rocky Hill | Rocky Hill High School | Salsa Tasting | Salsa made by students the day before will be used at lunch and in taste tests. | ||||||||||||
23 | Woodbridge | Beecher Road School | Fresh Salsa Tasting | Learn about what Massaro Farm does in Woodbridge and sample their farm salsa | United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut | United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut | CTG4CTK Week | Family child care providers will put together activities for parents and children to taste test | ||||||||||||
24 | Wolcott | Alcott School | Meet and Greet: What's up with farm to school? | We will meet with local legistlators and school/district admin to update on our school meal program, we will participate in a taste test and apple crunch. | ||||||||||||||||
25 | Wolcott | Tyrell Middle School | Corn Shucking Event | We will be holding a corn shucking event with our building/district admins and home ec students. | ||||||||||||||||
26 | Woodbridge | Beecher Road School | Corn on the Cob Tasting | Students will get to enjoy an ear of corn that they helped shuck the day before. | ||||||||||||||||
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