The Farm to School Podcast

Rick Sherman & Michelle Markesteyn

Join our hosts Michelle Markesteyn with Oregon State University, and Rick Sherman of Oregon Department of Education as they explore what it means to bring local food into the school cafeteria, and teach kids about where their food comes from.

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Teeny School? No Kitchen? No problem! Find out how Lua Siegel transformed a very rural charter school into an edible landscape.

Teeny School? No Kitchen? No problem! Find out how Lua Siegel transformed a very rural charter school into an edible landscape.

Join Rick and Michelle as they interview Lua Siegel, a School Garden Coordinator with very unique challenges.

Teeny School? No Kitchen? No problem! Find out how Lua Siegel transformed a very rural charter school into an edible landscape.

Teeny School? No Kitchen? No problem! Find out how Lua Siegel transformed a very rural charter school into an edible landscape.

Join Rick and Michelle as they interview Lua Siegel, a School Garden Coordinator with very unique challenges.

Creating a State Farm to School Movement: Michelle Markesteyn

Creating a State Farm to School Movement: Michelle Markesteyn

Join us as Rick interviews his co-host, Michelle Markesteyn on how she got her start introducing Farm to School to Oregon. Not only did she do that, but she's reinvented herself many times over in order to create new positions that she's served in over the years in order to better serve the Farm to School community.

Starting a National Farm to School Movement: Anupama Joshi

Starting a National Farm to School Movement: Anupama Joshi

Join us as we interview Anupama Joshi, the founder of the National Farm to School Network as she details how this movement started.

School Garden Sustainability: Kelly Douglas

School Garden Sustainability: Kelly Douglas

Join us as we interview a School Garden Coordinator, who transformed a high school in an underserved community by raising $30,000 to not only establish a garden, but create a garden club that had 75% of the student body participate in it! Kelly will share details of how she won a prestigious award for this work, as well as lessons learned when it all went away!

What is Farm to School?

What is Farm to School?

In this episode, Rick and Michelle explore what the term "Farm to School" means.

Farm to School in Remote Areas; Rikkilyn Starliper

Farm to School in Remote Areas; Rikkilyn Starliper

Learn about farm to school in a remote "frontieresque" community, a possessed greenhouse, and more with Nutrition Services Director Rikkilyn Starliper of Umatilla School District in Eastern Oregon.