School Food Innovator Series: Lessons from the Field
About this Series
The School Food Innovator Series is a virtual quarterly gathering designed for members of the California Food for California Kids® Network. This series showcases innovation in school food leadership across the state and fosters connections between Network members and offers peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
About this Session
Hear from school food leadership sharing ideas for strengthening staff morale, building successful community partnerships, and advocating for your school nutrition programs.
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Slides: Lessons from the Field
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Chat: Lessons from the Field
Welcome! Please introduce yourself by typing your name, position, and where you work into the chat box. What are you looking forward to this spring in your program or at your district?
Hi, Stacy Johnson
Sally Spero from LunchAssist
Good morning! I am Karen Brown, creative director of the Center for Ecoliteracy.
Eric Span
Trish Baugus, Calaveras USD
Laurel Goins Lucia Mar Unified. We are getting back to salad bars! We have ordered all new ones and they should be here in May
Ben Schleifer from Center for Environmental Health---Waste Audits!
Tahoe Truckee Unified School District
Excited at Glendora USD to reopen our salads!
Looking forward to the spring harvest in the school farm. We have a new farmer and she's been BUSY!
June Richardson - Ravenswood City SD East Palo Alto
Good morning! Zetta Reicker from San Ramon Valley USD, looking forward to more salad bar variety too!
Gelene Coelho Shandon Joint Unified School Dostrict
Good Morning from Capistrano USD. Looking forward to planning menus for school year. Kristin Hilleman
Hi Jen Dalton, Comms and Policy Support at Center for Ecoliteracy. I’m in Mendocino County, Ukiah, excited to hear from my neighbor Pilar!
Director Nutrition Services SUHSD. Looking forward to getting back to scratch cooking.
Good morning everyone, I’m pleased to join this morning. I’m Zenobia Barlow, the Interim Executive Director at the Center for Ecoliteracy.
Dylan Hatami, West Contra Costa USD. We're looking forward to all the spring fresh fruits and vegetables
Same here ERic!! Stephanie Bruce, SR. Executive Director, Nutrition Services, Oakland USD
What's up Stephanie !!! :)
Rosa Rubio, Calistoga Joint Unified School District
Tania Courtney - Benicia USD
Loving my start to my day to be here in support of you Pilar and Kat! 3 amazing Child Nutrition Heroes
Rosa!!! Calistoga, my happy place!!!!!
Thanks Stephanie, likewise to Kristin and you!!
National Nutrition Month Resources: [link]
How is your district celebrating National Nutrition Month? Feel free to share!
Absolutely !!!!
I am going to date myself, but feel like the Romper room days. looking through my mirror at all the amazing people out there! I see Kristen, and Vince, and Stacy, and Kat, and Eric, and Crystal, and...…..
Aw, Stephanie! ?
That's a blast from the past !!!
Snow is so nice to see on a photograph lol
yeah Lauren! Welcome ?
Yes! We miss it tremendously... only 1 major storm this year with 18 feet of snow at once.
USA Pulses Harissa Red Lentil Hummus Recipe: [link]
Suzy is AMAZING! And a great lover of animals.
Love the lettuce wall
Yum!!!
So amazing to have all these fabulous people joining! Welcome!
Yes! Sushi.... I'm in.
Pop-up sushi sounds so fun!
Sushi for our high schools, that is.
Thanks Eric!
Really great work! Well done
I love all the special attention to listening and responding to your staff. Great work!
Good for you, Eric. I hope you had fun and had someone listen to YOU!
Eric you elevate your team well, thank you for sharing!!!
So thoughtful and inspiring Eric!!
Thank you Pilar! Love food hubs!
So helpful to see how to make local purchasing more accessible even when there’s not a lot of options in your county. Thanks, Pilar!
Question for Pilar on micropurchasing: is the $50,000 limit per farm or per order? In other words, can you order $50,000 multiple times from the same farm or only once per year per farm?
My understanding is that the $50,000 refers to products, not to vendors. So if you are going to spend $100,000 on local citrus you can't use multiple farmers using micropurchasing.
Yay Sierra Harvest!
the amount is an aggregate value and you can not go over $50,000 per farmer. I would check with your CNC because I have learned there is not always consistent thoughts on using Micro Purchases for crops.
Excellent advice, Stephanie.
Sally, couldn't you use a opportunity bid for the citrus which would allow you to use multiple vendors?
I think that is a district interpretation of "perishable."
Awesome job Kat !!!
Amazing job fostering partnerships and advocating for your program, Kat! It’s incredible to see what’s possible with so many community connections.
Thank you! I learned a lot of information I didn't know from the fun quiz!
Its me :-)
hahaha
Rostomily, Nancy
I was the crab!
No Nancy Rostomily is Mily!
Darn haha :) Congrats ya'll!
How are you keeping Farm to School activities going? How is your staff doing right now? How are you keeping staff morale up? What kinds of community partnerships do you have in your district? What have been successes and challenges in those community partnerships? Are you involved in school food policy advocacy?
The artichokes tripped me up lol
Eric, what’s a fair stipend in your mind?
$200 - $300 per month - from Eric!
preach
YES!!!
YES ERIC! Thank you Center for Ecoliteracy!
Thank you everyone I have to head to another meeting- about pay!
Join the California Food for California Kids Network: [link]
Learn more about the Fresh from California Campaign: [link]
National Farm to School Network USDA LAMP Application Resources: [link]
National Farm to School Network USDA LAMP Application Technical Assistance: [link]
Wallace Center USDA LAMP Application Resources: [link]
Thank you! Really beneficial and I enjoyed it thoroughly!
Thank you All! CEL rocks!
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August 25 2022
