Kim Lloyd serves up the Harvest of the Month recipe, Simple Snazzy Salad, using greens from Helena Community Garden! She is serving at Helena Food Share using the awesome Charlie Cart! We have the recipe on the Leafy Greens page and a video of the recipe on youtube! Sources: St. Peter’s Health |
A Day in the Life of a Farm to School Educator 🥕🌾 Lesson scheduling, planning, prepping, teaching, dishes, data collection, rinse, repeat 🌀 All month long our educators are talking about #MTGrains in classrooms around #GallatinValley. Our lessons highlight how these foods are grown, why they’re healthy for our bodies, and how to prepare them into tasty meals!
  To celebrate the last Farm to School lessons of the school year, East Side’s students made a Harvest of the Month salad to enjoy in the garden. The salad featured five Montana Harvest of the Month items: leafy greens for June as well as carrots, beets, cabbage, and lentils! The students prepped
JB Capdeville, Farm to School Coordinator of the Polson School District, and students created this amazing video detailing beef production at a ranch in their community. This project was completed through the EPA Growing for Environmental Stewardship sub-award. In this video they highlight how they use MT Harvest of the Month to incorporate local beef
“We wrapped up a year of Farm Fresh Friday lunches with Chef Carole’s famous Bison Rocks! These tasty buns were filled with bison from Montrail bison as well as kale and butternut squash grown by Farm to School. Can you tell by the look on the faces of these students that the meal was a
3rd-6th grade classes from Philipsburg Elementary came out to NCAT’s Sift Farm for a field trip. At the leafy greens stand, the classes played true and false, a guessing game, and did a taste test. The students looked at seedlings of arugula, spinach, kale, lettuce, and rainbow chard, and guessed which was which. Then they
St. Peter’s Health HOM Coordinator and Nutrition Services Team served Montana-raised bison burgers to patients and staff. What a great way to promote May’s HOM item. Source: St. Peter’s Health | Facebook
Check out this video created by Kim LLoyd, HOM Coordinator out of St. Peter’s Health. This video is used as a virtual field trip for students across Montana. Share with parents, students, teachers, or on your social media outlets!
Check out this video created by Kim LLoyd, HOM Coordinator out of St. Peter’s Health. Sunflower Bakery is a Business & Community HOM participant located in Helena. This video is used as a virtual field trip for students across Montana. Share with parents, students, teachers, or on your social media outlets!
North Valley Food Bank in Whitefish roasted chickpeas in their commercial kitchen and handed out samples to their customers! Source: North Valley Food Bank | Facebook
Our chickpea taste test was a hit! We served a mock chicken salad made with chickpeas instead of chicken. Lots of students and teachers loved this one. Hudson, a kindergarten student said “This is bustin’ bustin'” and Cy, a fourth grader, said “This is better than pizza!” We do cafeteria taste tests for two reasons:
Kindergarteners in the Gallatin Valley had the unique experience of cooking in the classroom! We made a delicious carrot salad using @amaltheiadairy carrots! Source: Gallatin Valley Farm to School | Facebook