The Farm to School Podcast

Rick Sherman & Michelle Markesteyn

Join our hosts Michelle Markesteyn with Oregon State University, and Rick Sherman of Oregon Department of Education as they explore what it means to bring local food into the school cafeteria, and teach kids about where their food comes from.

UPDATE: We're updating a few things as we continue to grow, our infrastructure has to grow as well. We will have a new website to host all of our show notes, contact information and more. Google "farm to school podcast OSU" to get to our hosting site that has all that information.

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Does Local Food Make School Lunches Healthier? A Discussion With USDA FNS Administrator Cindy Long

Does Local Food Make School Lunches Healthier? A Discussion With USDA FNS Administrator Cindy Long

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.It's not every day when the United States Department of Agriculture reach out to you to ask if their "person at the top" of the school lunch program can be a guest on your show! Join Michelle and Rick as they have a conversation with Administrator Long about how Farm to School fits in the USDA's programs.

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Does Local Food Make School Lunches Healthier? A Discussion With USDA FNS Administrator Cindy Long

Does Local Food Make School Lunches Healthier? A Discussion With USDA FNS Administrator Cindy Long

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.It's not every day when the United States Department of Agriculture reach out to you to ask if their "person at the top" of the school lunch program can be a guest on your show! Join Michelle and Rick as they have a conversation with Administrator Long about how Farm to School fits in the USDA's programs.

Bringing Health & Wellness into School Gardens

Bringing Health & Wellness into School Gardens

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Michelle and Rick interview Rick's Co-worker, Jennifer Young of Oregon Department of Education, where she serves as the State Wellness Coordinator. Join them as they discuss School Wellness Policies, and strategies to incorporate that into what we do in school gardens.

Growing School Gardens Summit Part 4

Growing School Gardens Summit Part 4

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California. Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories. This is part FOUR of a four-part series.

Growing School Gardens Summit Part 3

Growing School Gardens Summit Part 3

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California. Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories. This is part THREE of a four-part series.

Growing School Gardens Summit - Part 2

Growing School Gardens Summit - Part 2

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California. Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories. This is part TWO of a four-part series.This episode Rick interviews:Kaitlyn Scheuermann, Waukee Community School District, Waukee IASelma Sims, Gardeneers, Chicago Ill. Pam Hosimer, Univ. of Maryland Extension, Derwood, MD

Growing School Gardens Summit Part 1

Growing School Gardens Summit Part 1

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California. Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories. This is part one of a four-part series.

Not all Schools Have Walls: A visit With North Country School, Lake Placid NY

Not all Schools Have Walls: A visit With North Country School, Lake Placid NY

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join Michelle and Rick as they interview Todd Ormiston, the Executive Director for North Country School in Lake Placid NY. Todd shares the strategies, challenges and philosophies for farm-based education at their school.

Bringing Learning to Life In the School Garden: Special Guest John Fisher

Bringing Learning to Life In the School Garden: Special Guest John Fisher

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join us as we interview John Fisher, from Life Lab in Santa Cruz County, California. John has dedicated his life to bringing school gardens to the forefront in the USA, and has been a main architect in the school garden movement.

Everything happens for a reason: Michelle interviews her co-host Rick Sherman

Everything happens for a reason: Michelle interviews her co-host Rick Sherman

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.From his humble beginnings as a Dockboy and competitive distance runner, to earning an ED degree and finding his dream job as a State Agency Farm to School Analyst, listen as Michelle interviews her co-host, Rick Sherman

Teeny School? No Kitchen? No problem! Find out how Lua Siegel transformed a very rural charter school into an edible landscape.

Teeny School? No Kitchen? No problem! Find out how Lua Siegel transformed a very rural charter school into an edible landscape.

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join Rick and Michelle as they interview Lua Siegel, a School Garden Coordinator with very unique challenges.

Creating a State Farm to School Movement: Michelle Markesteyn

Creating a State Farm to School Movement: Michelle Markesteyn

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join us as Rick interviews his co-host, Michelle Markesteyn on how she got her start introducing Farm to School to Oregon. Not only did she do that, but she's reinvented herself many times over in order to create new positions that she's served in over the years in order to better serve the Farm to School community.

Starting a National Farm to School Movement: Anupama Joshi

Starting a National Farm to School Movement: Anupama Joshi

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join us as we interview Anupama Joshi, the founder of the National Farm to School Network as she details how this movement started.

School Garden Sustainability: Kelly Douglas

School Garden Sustainability: Kelly Douglas

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Join us as we interview a School Garden Coordinator, who transformed a high school in an underserved community by raising $30,000 to not only establish a garden, but create a garden club that had 75% of the student body participate in it! Kelly will share details of how she won a prestigious award for this work, as well as lessons learned when it all went away!

What is Farm to School?

What is Farm to School?

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.In this episode, Rick and Michelle explore what the term "Farm to School" means.

Farm to School in Remote Areas; Rikkilyn Starliper

Farm to School in Remote Areas; Rikkilyn Starliper

We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.Learn about farm to school in a remote "frontieresque" community, a possessed greenhouse, and more with Nutrition Services Director Rikkilyn Starliper of Umatilla School District in Eastern Oregon.