• Many local foods can be stored in a cool room, cooler, or freezer: Extending the Local Food Season tool & online resources
• Learn about the food seasons beyond the typical growing season – passive season-extension, preservation, and cold storage: Year-Round Local Food Calendar & online resources

• Download free guides on specific vegetables (recipes, curriculum, activities, & parent education) – Harvest for Health Kids
• Colorado ranks 6th in the nation for production of dry beans. Learn how to cook them:

• Read them a book about that specific food or new foods in general: Farm to Preschool Books at the Durango Public Library, available as PDF or searchable Excel spreadsheet.
• Engage them in edible education: Edible Education Curriculum, Farmer Daniel Day, & Farm Field Trips
• Get them growing and cooking the foods themselves:

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• When kids are willing to try new foods or are positively exposed to them at school, parents can more easily implement changes for a healthier family diet. Additionally, children involved in Farm to School increasingly ask families to make healthier purchases: Farm to School Benefits Fact Sheet
• Reach out to them: Parent Newsletters, Healthy Snack Sheet (also available in Spanish), Lunch From Home
• Find ways to involve parents in the preschool setting.

• View pathways to get started
• Guidance for the CO CACFP Healthier Meals Initiative
• Our Sample Local Food Menu
• Harvest of the Month
  • Gunnison Watershed School District (Colorado) example menu & newsletter
  • California Harvest of the Month