The Farm to School Podcast

Join Rick as he travels "on assignment" to Summerlin, Nevada to interview two groups of elementary students who participated in the "World's Largest Student Farmer's Market," sponsored by Green Our Planet.  We would love to hear from you! Send us a message. Show notes and much more will be available later this week on our new hosting Site:  https://extension.oregonsta...

Join us as for a fascinating interview of one of the worlds foremost authorities on bees and pollination - Andony Melanthopoulos with Oregon State University.. and how bees fit into the world of school gardens! This is part one of a two-part series. Show notes and much more will be available later this week on our hosting site: https://extension.oregonstate.edu/podcast/farm-school-podcast   We wou...

Join us for part two of our discussion about bees and pollinators in the school garden with Associate Professor Andony Melanthpoulos with Oregon State University. Show notes and much more will be available later this week on our new hosting Site:  https://extension.oregonstate.edu/podcast/farm-school-podcast We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

It's not every day when the United States Department of Agriculture reach out to you to ask if their "person at the top" of the school lunch program can be a guest on your show! Join Michelle and Rick as they have a conversation with Administrator Long about how Farm to School fits in the USDA's programs.  We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Michelle and Rick interview Rick's Co-worker, Jennifer Young of Oregon Department of Education, where she serves as the State Wellness Coordinator.  Join them as they discuss School Wellness Policies, and strategies to incorporate that into what we do in school gardens.  We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California.  Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories.  This is part FOUR of a four-part series. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California.  Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories.  This is part THREE of a four-part series. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California.  Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories.  This is part TWO of a four-part series. This episode Rick interviews: Kaitlyn Scheuermann ,  Waukee Community School District, Waukee IA Selma Sims , Gardeneers, Chicago Ill.  Pam Hosimer , Univ. of Maryland Extension, Derwood, MD W...

Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California.  Rick interviews a Dozen people with amazing stories.  This is part one of a four-part series. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Join Michelle and Rick as they interview Todd Ormiston, the Executive Director for North Country School in Lake Placid NY.  Todd shares the strategies, challenges and philosophies for farm-based education at their school.  We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Join us as we interview John Fisher, from Life Lab in Santa Cruz County, California.  John has dedicated his life to bringing school gardens to the forefront in the USA, and has been a main architect in the school garden movement. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

From his humble beginnings as a Dockboy and competitive distance runner, to earning an ED degree and finding his dream job as a State Agency Farm to School Analyst, listen as Michelle interviews her co-host, Rick Sherman We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Join Rick and Michelle as they interview Lua Siegel, a School Garden Coordinator with very unique challenges. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

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.  We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

Join us as we interview Anupama Joshi, the founder of the National Farm to School Network as she details how this movement started. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

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!  We would love to hear from you! Se...

In this episode, Rick and Michelle explore what the term "Farm to School" means. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.

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. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.