Trainings and Events
Upcoming Training & Events
Montana Crunch Time
Montana Crunch Time is a statewide event to celebrate National Food Day and National
Farm to School Month in Montana by crunching into locally and regionally grown apples
in October.
Montana Crunch Time 2021 will be held on October 20th. Register your crunch by October 31st to help Montana win the Mountain Plains Regional Crunch Off. Visit the Crunch Time site for more information.
Archived Training & Webinars
USDA hosts farm to school webinar series on a regular basis. Check out the current webinar series or recorded versions online.
- Welcome Plenary
- Don't Eat That Mushroom: Food Safety in the School Garden - Nina Heinzinger + Whitney
Pratt
- Recording
- Slides
- Handout: Food Safety in School Gardens
- Local Food for Local Kids: Solutions for Successful Local Food Procurement
- HOM and ECE in Action
- School Kitchen Tours
- Boulder Elementary School Tour
- School Garden Planning and Planting Basics
- Youth Food Talks
- Deep Dig Into No Dig Growing
- Engaging Families in Farm to School: Highlighting a Family Cooking Program - Brianna Routh + Zoey Mahoney
- Buying Local with an Economic Lens
- Building Strong School Garden Committees - Lori Blumenthal + Erin Austin
- Greenhouse to Cafeteria
- Enhancing Farm to Early Care Programming: Montana HOM Best Practices
- Creating an Afterschool Cooking Class Program
- Local Beef to School
- Harvesting Montana Recipes with DoD Fresh
- It Takes a Village: Strategies to Support Your Food Service Partners
- Keynote: Food as Resilience - Mariah Gladstone
- Closing Plenary - Christy Clark + Elsie Arntzen
- Recorded Showcase
- Video Clip: Ogren Ranch
- Video Clip: Miller Ranch
- Video Clip: Native Fish Keepers, Inc.
- Video Clip: Project Meats
- Video Clip: Huntley Project Schools
- Video Transcript
- Slides
- Recorded Showcase
- Video Transcript
- Slides
- Video Clip: Creating an Effective School Garden Committee, Garden City Harvest
- Video Clip: School Gardens, Polson School District
- Video Clip: Seed Kits, Columbia Falls School District
- Resource: Action Plan Template
- Resource: Creating an Outdoor Learning Center, Garden City Harvest
- Resource: High School Plant Project
- Resource: Georgia Organics COVID-19 Handouts
- Resource: CDC Considerations for Outdoor Learning and Community Gardens during COVID-19
- Recorded Call
- Video Transcript
- Recorded Webinar
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- Recorded Webinar
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- Recorded Webinar
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- Recorded Webinar
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- Recorded Webinar
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- Recorded Webinar
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- Recorded Webinar
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- Watch the video
- Read the transcript
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Download presentations and slides
Watch the recorded webinar
Chef Donna's Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
Creating and Using a School Garden as an Outdoor Classroom
- Garden City Harvest - School Garden Guidebook
- Creating an Ideal School Garden Committee Handout
- PowerPoint Presentation
Funding Farm to School: Grants & Other Creative Funding Sources
Get Kids Hooked on Cooking in the Classroom
Getting Started with Farm to Early Care and Education
MT Beef to School Stories
Six #SocialMedia Strategies You Can Use to Promote Your Program NOW
