“Another great shopping trip to Benson’s Farm and we got our first fall CSA from Western Montana Growers Cooperative & CSA We are so excited, we even had seconds on tasting the spinach from North Shore Farm in Lakeside! The cauliflower from Harlequin Produce will go perfectly with our Montana Harvest of the Month: Brassicas!”
Missoula Food Bank and Community Center used Montana Harvest of the Month materials to create awesome activity cards showcasing apples, dairy, and cherries. They are putting these cards in lunches that they distribute to children across Missoula! Cherries Activity Cards Dairy Activity Cards Apples Activity Cards
Above is a great picture of one of Polson’s lunches that their food service provided for the students in their district. This meal contained a delicious spaghetti main course with fresh broccoli and fruit cocktail. Along with that, a bread stick with the HOM Pesto recipe, Nut Free Spinach Basil Pesto. They had mixed reviews
Bradley and Loretta Dunn-Meier of BLD farms in Troy, Montana displayed Harvest of the Month materials and offered taste tests to showcase herbs and summer squash at the Troy Farmers Market in September. The herbs taste tests included basil, tomato, and mozzarella with a basil vinaigrette and the summer squash taste test offered was chocolate
Co-coordinators of the Montana Harvest of the Month Program were lucky to attend the August HOM Family Cooking Night showcasing cherries! Dish-Ability, MSU Extension- Silver Bow County SNAP ED & Butte 4-C’s Zero to Five Butte-Silver Bow led two families and in making cherry gazpacho, cherry preserves to go on turkey and cheese sandwiches, and a peach and cherry galette!
Dish-Ability, MSU Extension- Silver Bow County SNAP ED & Butte 4-C’s Zero to Five Butte-Silver Bow will be hosting a monthly series of 4 Family Cooking Nights at the Nutrition Education Station from July-October. These Family Cooking Nights are FREE and open for all to apply! Each family cooking night will be centered around the
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