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Farm to School Central Coast

A program of Slow Money SLO, Farm to School is connecting local farmers with school districts from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Monterey counties.

The program strives to boost revenue for our farmers, and nutrition for our kids!

11/11/2024

Oodles of apples for kiddos at Lucia Mar USD!! 🍎🍏

brought Pink Ladies, Cameos, Fujii and Granny Smith varieties for students to try and, no surprise, they gobbled up these crunchy, juicy, tart/sweet treats!

Huge thanks to the food service teams and to Miss Jessica for bringing local fruit for everyone to enjoy!! 🫶💚

11/08/2024

Our friends are celebrating 10 years of excellent service to our farming and youth communities!

Grab a ticket and join in the fun!! 🥳 We'll see you there!!

11/07/2024

We had a blast handing out SUGAR.....snap peas to ninjas, dinosaurs, princesses and elves!! 🫛

Farmer Jacinto of brought the most crunchy, sweet, nutrious peas for kiddos to try, and they were a HIT!!

Students and staff both gave 👍👍

Thank you so much to the staff and farmer for making Halloween extra special by bringing for everyone to enjoy!!

11/05/2024

We are SO fortunate here on the to have sweet, delicious 🍓🍓 almost all year!!

Farmer afrank from brought kids at Lucia Mar schools his super tasty berries to try during lunch 🤤

The students LOVED these and thought it was pretty cool that the farmer picked them that morning and came to school to meet students 😀

Thanks to the team at Lucia Mar Food Service, and big thanks to Farmer Frank for growing !!

11/04/2024

What a sweet treat it was to have out to San Miguel Schools to teach kids about bees and how they make 🍯!! 😃

Farmer Thomas and his wife Stephanie told students about how they care for the bees, what roles each type of bee has in the hive, and how they make honey. Students (and adults!) were fascinated and swarmed around the observation hive to see our busy buzzy friends at work!

Each student took home a mini jar of fresh, raw, local honey!!!

Thank you SO much, Thomas and Stephanie, for teaching student and for !!

Thanks to the team for organizing such fun and impactful events for students 😀

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween!! 🎃

We 💚 , especially when it's a little spooooky!

brought avocados (aka gator eggs), and finger limes (aka sour sprinkles) to kiddos at Atascadero schools! 🥑

Students learned about how these wacky and delicious fruits are grown, their nutritional value, and what it's like to be a farmer 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

HUGE thanks to our and for making a fun learning atmosphere for the students!

If YOU are curious about Shanley Farms products, head over to their website or place an order on 😁

10/30/2024

It's been a whirlwind of this month, and we are HERE for it!

Kicking off our celebrations was who brought 4 types of 🍎🍏 for tasting.

Farmer Catherine and her crew of crushed them, pressed them, and made FRESH cider!!🤯🤤

The garden club at Templeton schools were excited to learn about the farm, what they grow, and what the difference between Apple juice and apple cider is. Anyone have a guess?! 🤔 Let us know in the comments!

Thanks to the teachers and for making the magic all come together!

And THANK YOU to for growing good food and feeding our kiddos!! 💚

10/03/2024

Happy y'all!!

We can't wait to share all the FUN activities we've got planned this month 😃

Sneek peek: 🍎🍏🥑🍯😉

Shout out to for slapping the logo on their vehicle!

We are grateful for the ad space 😆 and pumped that you're getting folks excited about !!

09/10/2024

Hooray for apple week!! 🍎 😃 Templeton's littles learned about apples from their fabulous teachers AND from a !!

Miss Jessica told the students about their farm, what apple varieties they grow, how they pick apples (check out the apple bucket she brought!), and then we gobbled up 5 kinds of apples!! 🤤

Thanks to the teachers and who helped bring it all together! 💚🧡💛❤️

HUGE thank you to Miss Jessica and for coming out to teach 🙌🙌

08/22/2024

Wow wow wow! Our school districts and are killin' it! 👏

The growth in buying year over year is IN-credible.

We are completely in awe of our farmers and schools for their hard work and dedication. 😍

07/10/2024

Summer Fruit alert!!

Students at San Miguel Schools tried fresh peaches, plums, apricots and apples from 🍑🍏

They learned what it means when we say 'stone' fruit, and (in this case, the farm is just 8 miles from their school 😃)!!

We noticed that the plums were especially popular, they ran out 1st 🤤

Thanks very much to Miss Jessica for the sweet treats and !!

07/01/2024

We had a great time touring last week with Paso Robles JUSD!!

This has about 1 acre
of (2nd 📷) including Asian pears 🍐 (3rd 📷), pineapple guava (4th 📷), and apples 🍎 (5th 📷)!!

We are so excited to try these out with the kiddos when they come into season over the next few months!!

Address

1221 Calle Joaquin
San Luis Obispo, CA
93405

Website

http://www.slowmoneyslo.org/

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