Media/News: California News
Winter 2018-2019
Seven Vista schools win top USDA nutrition award
How a Child Nutrition Director from Lakeside Union School District approaches staffing
Fall 2018
Can Sacramento City Unified School District Expel Junk Food From Classrooms?
Ideas and Innovations-Try a Kitchen Field Trip
Santa Barbara Unified School District Drops Processed Meat from the Lunch Menu
New Food Truck Brings Excitement to Lodi USD
Here’s a Way to get Students to Try Fruits and Veggies
Summer Program for Elk Grove School District
Oakland USD Small Changes are Adding Up
Rosedale Schools Make Fresh Changes to Menu, Doubling Participation
Denair Students to receive three free meals a day
Summer 2018
Summer Family Food & Wellness Expo at Golden West Elementary School in Manteca
School Garden Support Organization Leadership Institute held January 20-25, 2019 in Santa Cruz. Applications due August 10, 2018!
California District in Merced serves “Super Snacks” during after school program
Smart lunchrooms help Livermore kids make good choices
California Law Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017
Natomas Unified provided outstanding food service during summer
In San Francisco, Bon Appetit’s two Presidio restaurants have partnered with Claire Lilienthal Elementary School to host a Healthy Kids event
Los Angeles Unified School District offers more meal options through food service program
Winter 2017-2018
Hesperia USD: More than 10,000 meals served
From ‘Meatless Mondays’ to taquitos, here’s what LA students will be eating this year
Water bottle refilling stations help students keep hydrated
Schools are closed amid firestorms, but campus kitchens stay open
Spices put a kick in students lunch
Summer 2017
Oceanside picnic kicks off free summer lunches
“Meatless Mondays” get cut from high school menu
Spring 2017
Easing of nutrition rules not expected to change Sonoma County school menus
Kids learn lessons, feast on food from Lemon Avenue school garden
Summer lunch program helps feed hungry children in Merced County
Sushi for under $1.25? More Bay Area schools try to solve the riddle of how to whip up fresh, healthy low-cost school lunches
SCV School Food Services Agency announces summer meal program
Farm to Fork Showcase puts a spotlight on high school students
A garden with no sunlight or soil? Future blooms at Concord high school
Sonoma High students serve Porkfolio
California school pilots smoothies
Students start recycling program after school food fight; shift culture
Winter 2016-2017
Clovis USD Dietitian demos healthy meal preps
Crack some eggs and toast Breakfast Week!
Meal Appeal University: Making school cafeteria food more appealing
Kern County students visiting Lancaster to sample future school menu items
Turning ton of daily school food waste into biogas fuel
District partners with UCSD to study plate waste
Fresh approach with farm-to-school meals in Oakland
Southern Cal SNA offers the Nutrition Educator Contest!
Check out the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Healthy Schools Web Page
Fall 2016
Orchard program fruitful for students
Some Inland schools are ditching meat in Monday lunches
What’s on the lunch menu now in Long Beach schools? Wheat, fresh fruit and veggies
The drought is over at L.A. schools. For chocolate milk, anyway
Southern Cal SNA offers the Nutrition Educator Contest!
Read the September 2016 Issue of the Team Up for School Nutrition
Success Newsletter
The Government’s Using ‘X-Ray Vision Carrots’ To Fight Food Waste
Clovis schools provide new lunch app and new kitchen for students
Food truck replaces cafeteria at Davis Senior High School – for now
Food For All Mendocino plans School Food Day in Ukiah, Fort Bragg
Summer 2016
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Students launch waste-free lunch program in La Quinta
Barstow students discover fruits and vegetables
Schools make cafeteria connections
Spring 2016
El Monte City School District team member wins national award
Let them eat kale: How a school lunch lady cracked the picky eater code
Clovis Unified adds more appealing menu to school lunches
Sacramento City Unified searching for game plan to build central kitchen
Cornell program at LAUSD helps kids make better food choices
The Great Kindness Challenge Founding School District Takes Kindness to New Heights!
Winter 2015-2016
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Tweaks Food Menus
Kale Anyone? Santa Paula students sample healthy eats
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Tweaks Food Menus
Fall 2015
Trinidad school serves organic, healthy lunches
Farm to School - The battle for healthy eating
Manteca High School students can earn money working on District's farm
Culinary careers on the menu for South County students
School lunch nutrition changing for the better
Bay2Tray brings fresh local seafood to the school cafeteria in Monterey
Cafeteria Nutrition – A Balancing Act
Grades of Green's waste reduction contest to challenge two Long Beach schools
Santa Monica schools compete to be trash-free at lunch
School cafeteria changes come in healthy doses
Beefing up School Lunch
Merced County high schools use local produce for school lunches
California District focuses on meal participation
Summer 2015
Free summer meals program continuing in Ukiah
From seeds to student lunches
INLAND SCHOOLS: Feds fund fruits, vegetables
The California Endowment
‘Food, What?!' Strawberry Blast teaches teens about health and food justice
What's for lunch? At SLO County schools, whole grains and veggies
SCHOOLS: Assuring nutrition needs are met in summer
Spring 2015
San Benito personalizes cafeteria menu
Growing their own food: Community garden yield feeds students at 5 elementary sites
Food, paper waste get second life at Visalia schools
Gardener brings hometown investment to national school-food program
Culinary Academy dishes up food at middle school
Rancho Cordova elementary school bell means the start of classes – and breakfast
Education: Schools eye breakfast in classrooms
Most Californians support serving breakfast to students during school day
Winter 2014-2015
Farm-to-table movement comes to school cafeterias
With salads on the menu, Placentia middle-schoolers have a green light to eat
˜Farm-to-cool" grants aim to spur healthy eating
SCHOOLS: What's for lunch? More often, it's fresh and California-grown
Fall 2014
Top agriculture expert praises school supper program
School Garden Growth Spurt
San Francisco schools continue to rethink the cafeteria, connect students with local food
Schools experiment with Meatless Monday menus
School Awards from The Center for Ecoliteracy
Pittsburg students to help First Lady Harvest garden
Willow Cove students, staff beaming after White House visit
Bee in Turlock: Schools strive for farm-fresh food
Lodi USD shifts to more made-from-scratch meals
Schools "think local" for food sources
Reducing schools' food-service waste
Summer 2014
California school hosts farmer's market to promote nutrition
Unlike many fads in foodservice, wellness is here to stay -El Monte City School District
Merced schools to adopt USDA school snack regulations
San Francisco schools cook up a new approach to the cafeteria experience