1. Opportunities and Challenges to consider
Farm to School
Opportunities and Challenges to consider

2. Who is involved in agriculture?

3. Real Farmers, Growing Real Food

4. So Many Opportunities! Schools can “pick their food”. Field Trips
A great way to sell produce that you wouldn’t have a market for.
Expanding partnerships, creating business opportunities.
Relationships

5. It’s ALL Sunshine….and unicorns… or not…
Difficult for farmers to have constant communication. Producers are farmers, marketers, book keepers, HR departments, food safety specialists and everything in between.
Finding a middle ground of pricing. Schools are used to working with commodity dollars.
Schools want a reliable consistent supply of product. Mother Nature doesn’t always allow for that.
Farming is a business.

6. Farmers taking ownership in the movement
Work Together!
Form Partnerships that work.
See the other side of the coin.
Find creative ways to form relationships.

7. We are creating the next generation of agriculturalists!

8. Lorin Fahrmeier Farm to Institution Project Coordinator University of Missouri-Extension