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Edible Education Curriculum – our short list of good resources

Parent Snack Sheet – suggestions for healthy and local snacks from home, also available as Spanish version

Lunch From Home – tips for healthy lunches from home, portion guidance, and more

Local Food Sources for PreSchools – selected local products, producer links, and CSAs available

Sample Local Foods Menu – showing how local foods can be incorporated into CACFP menus

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The Promise of Farm to Preschool in Southwest Colorado – HCFS Special Report 1-Dec-2015

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The “Extinction of Experience” and the Health of Local Foodsheds —exploring foodsheds while dreaming of what could be

June 13, 2024 By Jim Dyer Leave a Comment

Exploring nature and how it is doing—in gardens, on farms and ranches, and throughout the foodshed—links the increasingly overlooked physical and mental benefits of being outside in natural settings to increased awareness, appreciation, and support of healthy ecosystems. HCFS offers three “foodshed field guides” below to help in this exploration. It’s mid-May, and I’m at […]

Let Them Eat Carrots

September 7, 2018 By Jim Dyer 1 Comment

A Simple Back-of-the-Envelope Exploration of Foodability Foodability—which can be taken to mean the degree to which a community or region could be self-reliant for its food—is at the heart of the local food movement. It is a pursuit; we don’t know how far we can go in that direction, but we know that we have […]

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Being Proactive—as a Community—About Climate Change in our Local Food Systems and Foodsheds

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Fickle Monsoons, Summer in March, and Hot Summer Nights: Climate change is here, has been seriously affecting local agriculture, and will certainly get worse. It will take some serious effort to adjust our local food production and local food systems to the extent needed, so why not ramp up efforts now to adapt and help […]

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