ORGANIZATIONS

Center for Science in the Public Interest
Great website on improving school food with links to federal and state policies and programs and a great resources page which includes "Dispeling school food funding myths"
"With low-nutrition foods tempting kids at nearly every other public place in America, schools should be one setting where parents do not have to worry about what their children are eating...."

Center for Ecoliteracy
This site has a pdf plan for changing a school lunch system.

Food Security Coalition
A good source for information on the Farm Bill. The FSC describes itself as "dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times."

Edible Schoolyard
Chef Alice Water's school-garden project that inspired many, many others.

Food and School Initiative

The Leopold Center

National School Lunch Program

School Lunch Initiative

Better School Food
National organization focused on lobbying for better school food.

Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

WEB SITES

Lunch Lessons
The book by the same name is available at the IC Public Library. Its author, Ann Cooper, has refashioned the Berkeley Public School's lunch system while working under the usual federal guideline and budgetary constraints.

Two Angry Moms
Companion web site for documentary film about improving school lunch programs.

Vermont FEED
A community -based approach to school food system change in a rural state.

Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch