From Walter.Beesley at maine.gov Wed Mar 12 16:08:14 2008 From: Walter.Beesley at maine.gov (Beesley, Walter) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:08:14 -0400 Subject: [farm.school] Farm to school in the Natinal School Lunch Program Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B04392AE5@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> A USDA memo about local procurement has been posted on our web page. http://www.maine.gov/education/sfs/farm.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/farm.school/attachments/20080312/f4faaff8/attachment.html From Deanne.Herman at maine.gov Wed Mar 12 17:00:23 2008 From: Deanne.Herman at maine.gov (Herman, Deanne) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:23 -0400 Subject: [farm.school] FW: RE: ME Ag in the Classroom Council 4/2 Message-ID: <6BD6DE3CE636BC44964CCD4993188A46016466F5@SOM-TEAQASMAIL3.som.w2k.state.me.us> Hello All - I checked with Laughlin and the invitation is open to all interested parties. - Deanne Deanne Herman Maine Department of Agriculture 28 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333 207-287-7561 deanne.herman at maine.gov www.getrealmaine.com -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Files [mailto:Andrew_Files at umit.maine.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:51 PM To: m.aube at me.usda.gov; jim at borealisbreads.com; wwa at gwi.net; Edward Ashworth; jeffrey.barron at farmcreditmaine.com; lavonb at umext.maine.edu; Batteese, Robert; feedalliance at gwi.net; dkbell at maine.edu; futureseas at aol.com; joyce.benson at yahoo.com; mainedairy at aol.com; Blaisdell, Judy; verdevale at hotmail.com; mijbrad2 at aol.com; Bradstreet, Seth; rbrz at umext.maine.edu; rvccow at megalink.net; William_Card at collins.senate.gov; Tony Carroll ; pbc at parisfarmersunion.net; nchan at fairpoint.net; Kate Dickerson; jdill at umext.maine.edu; northstarorchards at hughes.net; melna at megalink.net; andrew_files at umit.maine.edu; DirigoSolutions at aol.com; flannery at mainepotatoes.com; tim at healthyacadia.org; fivefields at prexar.com; Gibbs, Ann; clarkgranger at clinic.net; fphardy at gwi.net; Harker, John; maryann at mainerural.org; dalicat at adelphia.net; Hedrich, Mark; Herman, Deanne; Charlene Herrick; hobbs at mainepotatoes.com; Jhodgkins5 at aol.com; vholmes at umext.maine.edu; ejensen694 at aol.com; goransonfarm at gwi.net; dianne.guidry at wdc.usda.gov; molly.jacobs at mail.house.gov; jellison at maine.edu; rjohnston at johnnyseeds.com; chris.jones at me.usda.gov; rkamp at cherryfieldfoods.com; queen at getwool.com; nanney at kieve.org; richardk at umext.maine.edu; mkilkelly at csg.org; kinghillfarm at gwi.net; DWLaber at aol.com; lapping at usm.maine.edu; david.lavway at me.usda.gov; gblaw at pioneerwireless.net; rlibby at mofga.org; Littlefield, Melanie; grovehil at acadia.net; bammo2 at earthlink.net; farmerwhite70 at hotmail.com; sunnyridge at gwi.net; Deb_McNeil at snowe.senate.gov; merrblue at merrillwildblueberries.com; applefarm at gwi.net; fmiles at maine.rr.com; bsmiller at gwi.net; millersd at adelphia.net; Renae Moran; nicolaus at lincoln.midcoast.com; Charles Norman; rjn at farmcreditmaine.com; jolson at mainefarmbureau.com; pauline.pare at me.usda.gov; leilapercy at gwi.net; jim.pineau at mail.house.gov; poppfarm at earthlink.net; Porter, Ned R; jrebar at umext.maine.edu; John Rebar; reiling at maine.edu; richard.robertson at farmcreditmaine.com; kcs at ceimaine.org; Fred Servello; Eichenfeld_farms at hotmail.com; n4smiths at ctel.net; otsmith at houlton.sad29.k12.me.us; Stewart Smith; info at snellfamilyfarm.com; kenjan at tds.net; rwspear at roadrunner.com; jsteeves at puremaple.com; tswain at westernmountainsalliance.org; joyce.swartzendruber at me.usda.gov; reddeer at midmaine.com; ltitus1 at verizon.net; elaine.tremble at me.usda.gov; nezfarm at megalink.net Subject: Fwd: RE: ME Ag in the Classroom Council 4/2 ******************************** Andrew C. Files, Associate Scientist School of Economics 5782 Winslow Hall Orono, Maine 04469 Phone: (207)-581-3108 Fax: (207)-581-4278 ----- Original Message ----- Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:31:11 PM Message From: "David K. Bell" Subject: RE: ME Ag in the Classroom Council 4/2 To: Andrew Files Cc: "'LAUCHLIN TITUS'" Attachments: April 2 Invitation letter5.doc 32K Hi Andrew, Would you please forward the attached letter to the AgCom list. The Maine Agriculture in the Classroom Council is looking for input on what are the most effective approaches to getting Agriculture in Maine Classrooms. There is a meeting scheduled in Augusta to gather the best thinking on April 2, 2008, 2:30 PM, rm. 319 Deering Building, the Maine Department of Agriculture building. More details are contained in the letter. Thank you, Dave Bell On behalf of the Maine Agriculture in the Classroom Council -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(CEI) ________________________________ From: Sympa user [mailto:sympa at elist.tufts.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Crosby Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:49 PM To: Comfood Subject: [COMFOOD:] Local Farm Healthy Kids Bill Passes WA State Legislature For Immediate Release: Contact: Tom Geiger March 11, 2008 Washington Environmental Council 206-631-2606 State Legislature Passes Local Farms Healthy Kids Bill: New law would make Washington a leader on national trend toward better food choices Olympia, WA - Today the state legislature passed the Local Farms - Healthy Kids bill (SSB 6483). Votes were very much bi-partisan and essentially unanimous in both the House and Senate. A key benefit of this legislation will make it easier for schools to buy locally grown food - providing markets for local farmers and nutritious, fresh local food for our children. As a package, this bill will become the most comprehensive local foods program in the nation. "The power of this idea has been amazing," said Representative Pettigrew, one of the most important legislative leaders on this bill. "This package creates opportunities for farmers, school kids, and in particular people with lower incomes by getting more locally grown food into school snacks and lunches." An incredibly broad and diverse coalition of supporters helped pass the legislation (see a full list of official supporters at end of release). Early momentum was created for the proposal when it was selected as one of the environmental community's Priorities for a Healthy Washington for 2008. "Farmers, schools, students, food banks, farmers markets, faith groups, and poverty, public health and children's advocates all worked together to get this bill passed," said Mo McBroom, Policy Director for Washington Environmental Council. "This is a great investment and a big first step toward re-connecting people to where our food comes from." What the Bill Does * Making it possible: expands children's access to locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables by easing purchasing restrictions that currently make it difficult for schools and institutions to buy from local farms. * Forging connections: Establishes a state "Farm To School" program that will connect schools with community farmers, and will provide necessary information and technical assistance to both school districts and farms. * Getting good food into the classroom: enacts a Washington Grown Fruits and Vegetables Program that will fund a fresh food snack program in schools with high numbers of low-income students. * Helping those who need it most: This effort will make it easier for low income families to purchase locally grown food by enabling farmers markets to accept food stamps, increasing funding of the Farmers Market Nutrition Programs and creating pilot projects for food banks to purchase fresh food directly from Washington farms. The Local Farms-Healthy Kids initiative is supported by a broad and diverse coalition: Farming Community Alm Hill Gardens Baird Orchards Bellewood Acres Bellingham Farmers Market Blue Heron Farm Cascadian Home Farm Cattle Producers of Washington Devine Gardens Double Rainbow Farm Eaton Season Ranch Full Circle Farm Growing Washington Heifer International Let Us Farm Nash's Organic Produce Ninety Farms, Arlington, WA Nooksack Nine Fruits and Veggies PCC Farmland Trust Red Shed Produce Salt Creek Farm Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland Small Potatoes Gleaning Project South Whidbey Tilth Sowing Seeds Farm Stanwood Camano Farm Tour The Cascade Harvest Coalition The Lands Council Tilth Producers of WA Tonnemaker Family Orchards 21 Acres Twin Springs Farm Victory's Organic Gardens Washington State Farm Bureau Washington State Farmers Market Association Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network Willie Greens Farm Yerbas de Yakima Organic Hay Farm Children's / Health/ Poverty Community Acting Food Policy Council Food Lifeline Greater Seattle Dietetic Association Sound Dietetic Association of Dietitians Northwest Harvest Nutrition Trails Odessa Brown Children's Clinic Solid Ground The Anti-Hunger and Nutrition Coalition The Children's Alliance Thurston County Food Bank Washington Association of Local WIC Agencies Washington Food Coalition Bridgeport School District Business Alliance for Local Living Economies Good Food Strategies Health Freedom Washington Lifelong Aids Alliance Lincoln School PTA Lutheran Public Policy Office PCC Natural Markets Slow Food Seattle Slow Food Skagit Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-op Sound Body Nutrition Spokane Falls Community College Sustainable Connections Washington State Catholic Conference Washington State PTA Washington State Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice Wellpinit School District Faith, Business, Teachers, Parents, School Nutritionists Bridgeport School District Business Alliance for Local Living Economies Earth Ministry Good Food Strategies Health Freedom Washington Lifelong Aids Alliance Lincoln School PTA Lutheran Public Policy Office PCC Natural Markets Slow Food Seattle Slow Food Skagit Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-op Sound Body Nutrition Spokane Falls Community College Sustainable Connections Washington School Nutrition Association Washington State Catholic Conference Washington State PTA Washington State Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice Wellpinit School District -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/farm.school/attachments/20080312/46a9be31/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message-footer.txt Url: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/farm.school/attachments/20080312/46a9be31/message-footer-0001.txt From Walter.Beesley at maine.gov Fri Mar 14 11:55:43 2008 From: Walter.Beesley at maine.gov (Beesley, Walter) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:55:43 -0400 Subject: [farm.school] Next year maine Farm to Cafertia day Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B04392AFE@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> Yes, the name is still an issue. I had selected the date as Sept 24th. Since then, I have heard that is a bad day because there is a conference or something else planned for the same day that would involve our farm to school players. Is this true? What other things are on the farm to school player calendar I need to be aware of. We are looking at the last of September or very first of October. Need to take into consideration school schedules. Monthly filing, producers schedule, and product availability. Hope to be able to evaluate input to confirm or change the date next week. We are presently building next school year's rough calendar. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/farm.school/attachments/20080314/75811c32/attachment.html From Walter.Beesley at maine.gov Mon Mar 17 16:32:50 2008 From: Walter.Beesley at maine.gov (Beesley, Walter) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:32:50 -0400 Subject: [farm.school] (no subject) Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B04392B20@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> I just received this email is anyone attending for Farm to School? The Maine Agriculture Day will be Tuesday, March 18 in the Hall of Flags. It starts at 9:00 am. Please stop by and see the displays regarding Agriculture. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/farm.school/attachments/20080317/7c4f99b5/attachment.html From kenmorse at mac.com Mon Mar 17 09:40:24 2008 From: kenmorse at mac.com (Ken Morse) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:40:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [farm.school] Come join me on Farm to School on Eat Maine Foods!... Message-ID: <24847792.1205761224144.JavaMail.xncore@smtp> Ken Morse has invited you to join Farm to School Check out this new social marketing Farm to School site hosted by the Eat Local Foods Coalition. Ken Click here to join: http://eatmainefoods.ning.com/group/farmtoschool?xgi=g1SItaS Thanks, Ken Morse -- To control which emails you receive on Eat Maine Foods!, go to: http://eatmainefoods.ning.com/profiles/profile/emailSettings From Walter.Beesley at maine.gov Tue Mar 25 08:49:28 2008 From: Walter.Beesley at maine.gov (Beesley, Walter) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:49:28 -0400 Subject: [farm.school] Maine Harvest Day -"Maine" Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B04392B7D@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> After receiving comments and suggestions the "Maine Harvest Day - Maine" will be moved to September 17th. The name Maine Harvest Day will continue to be the name used by the State Agency. However if your district participates the suggestion is use the same name and your district name. "Maine Harvest Day -"district Name" This does not have to be a crazy day. Start small and work though it. The day has more then the purpose of serving Maine foods and honoring our Maine producers that day. Other purposes are: 1. Establish contacts/relationships with Maine producers for future days. This could be an ongoing partnership with Maine producers. It would provide a good source of food and an outlet for the producer's product. It could be a win win situation. 2. Make students aware of Maine products on an on going bias Some students think green beans come from a can. Actual knowledge of where and how product is grown. Is it from a bush, tree or root may not be understood. Students and parents may not be aware what is actually produced in Maine. How the food is prepared or eaten is part of the education. Feed the student Maine products, educates the parent about Maine products. 3. Support your community/ local producers. With all the talk about consolation and schools fearing losing local control, what better way to demonstrate local support and local control of the food service department? Buy locally Start planning now. Hope to see you Friday at the Farm to School Conference. REMEMBER The cafeteria/ dining room is the biggest classroom in the school!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/farm.school/attachments/20080325/1d6eb044/attachment.html From kenmorse at mac.com Tue Mar 25 16:23:24 2008 From: kenmorse at mac.com (Ken Morse) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:23:24 -0400 Subject: [farm.school] Mass. Farm to School Meeting Coming up April 10th Message-ID: <98B2B9A7-3339-436C-B82F-7FBBD0F528BE@mac.com> Greetings folks- Thought you might be interested, esp. if you are in the southern part of Maine. Hope to see many of you this Friday for Maine's Spring Farm to School Conference. 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Titus, Chairman 1063 Main Street Vassalboro, ME 04989 Office 207 873-2108 Cell 207 314-2655 ltitus1 at verizon.net March 10, 2008 Dear Supporters of Maine Agricultural Education: I expect you have all seen the colorful new agriculture license plates on Maine highways (and maybe even on your own vehicle!). Part of the proceeds from the sale of these license plates provides ongoing funding for agricultural education in Maine schools. The legislation that authorized this also established the Maine Ag in the Classroom COUNCIL. I emphasize Council because it is a new and separate entity from the Maine Agriculture in the Classroom ASSOCIATION which has done wonderful, wonderful work for the past several years with a shoestring budget to promote agriculture education here in Maine. In light of our new structure, coupled with funds from not only the agriculture license plate but also from unwavering donations of our program supporters (we still need each and every one of you!), we are excited about the prospects of taking this program to new and greater heights. The Council is charged by the Legislature "to promote an understanding of the food and fiber system in the State and the nation through the infusion of agricultural concepts into primary, secondary and postsecondary curricula." The Council is working to collect the best proven, effective, programs and experiences as well as new ideas on how the mission can be met. We need to learn from you and others how to best use our resources to accomplish this. We will have a public meeting on April 2, 2008 at 2:30 PM in Room 319 at the Deering Building (sometimes referred to as the Maine Department of Agriculture Building) of the AMHI Complex in Augusta, Maine. We hope that you or a representative of your organization will attend the meeting to provide us with information about programming ideas and funding mechanisms that the Council may want to consider going forward. Written submissions are certainly welcome as well and may be sent via either e-mail or conventional mail to my address which you will find in the header of this letter. When you arrive at the Deering Building, it is locked. Go to the north entrance and follow the access instructions. When you make the required phone call tell the receptionist that you are here to attend the Maine Ag in the Classroom meeting and she will unlock the door. Thank you in advance for your assistance and for your support of Maine Agriculture in the Classroom. Sincerely yours, Lauchlin W. Titus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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