1. A TASTE OF CONEJO

2. Conejo Valley Unified School District Conejo Valley USD serves the communities of Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, and Westlake Village in the Eastern Ventura County. Students: 20,100 27 schools- 18 elementary, 5 middle schools, 3 comprehensive high schools, and 1 continuation high school. 23% students eligible for free and reduced price meals

3. TEAM CVUSD

4. Production Style Central kitchen: Preps fresh, local, seasonal crops for the elementary schools Prepares entrees, soups, and sides Delivers to sites Catering program Afterschool snacks (three sites) Middle and High Schools: Order, prep, cook, and serve Students Staff Harvest-of-the-Month- all schools

5. Central Kitchen- New Recipe 1200 Chili Verde Burritos

6. Menu Planning

7. Recipe Development and Student Sampling

10. Central Kitchen Prepping –Mo’ Beans Please!

11. Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools

12. Seasonal, Local, Produce

13. T.O. High School - First Day of Salad Bar

14. Saddle up to the Salad Bar

15. Bring a Parent to Lunch Day

16. Introducing Salad Bar Etiquette to Kinders

17. Classroom Taste Sampling – Blackberries!

18. Taste Sampling Pears on the Playground

20. Staff Development

22. Empowering staff to share their skills Engaging in the process- collaborating on recipe ideas, marketing, customer service

23. Staff planning for marketing

24. CNS Staff Back-to-School Meeting Celebrity MasterChef Jr. Troy Glass Ahi two-ways and Homemade Pasta

25. Dietetic Interns developing foodservice and catering techniques

26. Catering- Parent/Student Events

27. Breakfast Catering Events

28. Farms- Making the Connections- Big and Small Deardorff Family Farms Farms 2000 acres Join the Farm - 5 Acres

29. Join the Farm

30. Deardorf Family Farm We’re Committed to Kale

31. Partnerships/Stakeholders FoodCorps Member Partner with VC Farm-to-School Culinary Center Partnership for a Healthy Ventura County Conejo PTA Council Join the Farm- Abundant Table California Health and Longevity Center Conejo YMCA Received grant funds: CDE Equipment Assistance Grant VC Public Health –Community Transformation Grant for Farm to school infrastructure and stakeholder assessment for three partner districts

32. CVUSD Contact Information Website: http://www.conejousd.org/business/ChildNutrition.aspx Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Child-Nutrition- CVUSD/289862581168962 Like us on Facebook! Sandy Curwood, RDN, MS Director, Child Nutrition Services Conejo Unified School District 1400 East Janss Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 805-497-9511 ext 256 scurwood@conejousd.org