Description
The Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP) aims to increase knowledge of agriculture and improve the nutritional health of children. The program supports projects that bring together stakeholders from different parts of the food system to increase capacity for food and nutrition education within host organizations or entities, such as school cafeterias and classrooms, while fostering higher levels of community engagement between farms and school systems. The primary goals of FASLP are to increase capacity for food and nutrition education, complement and build on farm-to-school programs, and support projects that advance the nutritional health of children and nutrition education in elementary and secondary schools.
Some key aspects of the program include:
* Expanding access to healthy local food products in the School Breakfast program
* Operating service projects that support farm-to-school initiatives in schools
* Providing technical support and training for producers to participate in school food service
* Developing promotional campaigns and strategic planning efforts to expand farm-to-school initiatives
* Encouraging increased consumption of fruits and vegetables through promotional activities
* Expanding experiential or agriculture-based learning opportunities
* Developing and evaluating integrated curricula to reinforce food and nutrition-based learning throughout the school environment
Eligible applicants include State agricultural experiment stations, colleges and universities, university research foundations, other research institutions and organizations, Federal agencies, national laboratories, private organizations, nonprofit organizations, foundations, or corporations, individuals, and any group consisting of two or more entities described herein.