Early Childcare is the perfect place to highlight local products and feature fresh food and nutrition education for our youngest eaters. From taste tests to school gardens, multiple resources are available to help sites and sponsors bring local food to early childcare settings.
- activity plan, parent handout and half page flyer with key information on apples, beets, carrots, cucumbers, dairy, peas, peppers, potatoes, spinach, tomatoes, turnips, zucchini
Nutrition Education Kit Featuring My Plate
- Kids Gardening Activities and Lesson Plans
- build the best garden for your childcare center, an eight series publication on creating a childcare garden, growing and preparing fruits and vegetables in both warm and cool seasons, snacking and cooking techniques and composting.
- designed to develop goals and action plans to grow Farm to ECE
- best practices for serving local food
New Jersey Department of Agriculture
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