Assistance program
Farm to School Grant Program
$88.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Food and Nutrition Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants;Dissemination of Technical Information;Training
- CFDA number
- 10.575
- What it does
- The Farm to School program exists in order to assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Child Nutrition Programs. The program objectives for the implementation and State agency track grants include improve access to local foods in eligible Child Nutrition Program sites through comprehensive farm to school programming that includes local sourcing and agricultural education efforts. Objectives for the turnkey track grants include: development of an action plan to facilitate launching or scaling farm to school activities; plan, implement, and evaluate a food production operation (e.g., school garden) that produces food for Child Nutrition operator activities; plan, implement, and evaluate the integration of farm to school topics into Child Nutrition program sites' curriculum.
- Who benefits
- Eligible entities, and therefore beneficiaries, include schools/school districts, institutions participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and/or Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), Indian Tribal Organizations, non-profit organizations, producer and producer groups and State and local agencies.
- Who applies
- State Agencies, local agencies, Indian Tribal Organizations, small- and medium-sized agricultural/groups of agricultural producers, schools/school districts, Institutions participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and/or Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), and non-profit entities (excluding institutions of higher education and hospitals) may apply for the Farm to School Grant.
- Authorized by
- Section 18 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) establishes a Farm to School program in order to assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools…
- Program site
- https://www.fns.usda.gov/f2s/farm-to-school ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments