Connecting young people with their food is the most important step we can take to ensure a future full of good, clean, and fair food. Slow Food nurtures this future through our Slow Food in Schools program. Working with our chapters across the country, our Garden to Table projects provide meaningful, hands-on food experiences and education to K-12 students.

Slow Food USA has developed general guidelines for establishing Slow Food in Schools projects. This downloadable document provides a step-by-step guide to starting a project in your community as well as information on types of projects, model Slow Food in Schools projects, funding guidelines, and numerous informational resources.

Download the Slow Food How to Start a Schools Project here.

Slow Food on Campus is a network of Slow Food chapters at colleges and universities across the country. Run by student members, Slow Food on Campus chapters engage their community and the next generation of Slow Food leaders in creating a good, clean, and fair food system.

To keep up with Slow Food on Campus, opportunities for students, interesting articles, and Slow Food on Campus chapters across the country, check out the Slow Food on Campus blog at http://slowfoodoncampus.wordpress.com/. If you've got news from your area you would like to see posted on the blog, please contact Julia Middleton, Slow Food Youth Programs Assistant at julia@slowfoodusa.org.

If you are a student interested in starting a Slow Food chapter at your school, please download the guidelines and email youth@slowfoodusa.org to get started.

Slow Food USA Resources for Teachers

Excellent source of resources including cooking, gardening, community, and farm to school for children in the classroom and beyond.

USDA Agriculture in the Classsroom

The Agriculture in the Classroom National Resource Directory is an online searchable database that lists hundreds of educational resources designed to help educators locate high quality classroom materials and information to increase agricultural literacy among their Pre-K through 12th grade students.

The Lunch Box

This is a toolbox for transforming your school lunchroom! Loaded with practical resources to make it easier for you to make great, wholesome food to keep our kids fueled for learning and living.

Healthy Schools, Healthy Youth

The Furman Organic Garden is a student managed campus garden and market that provides the Furman and larger community with an environment in which students, faculty, and staff can study, research, and practice small-scale food production. The garden will strengthen physical, mental, and spiritual connections to the land through the practice of sustainable, organic agriculture.   Furman participates in the National Farm to School Program. These programs connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting local small farmers.

3300 Poinsett Hwy
Greenville, SC 29613
James Wilkins

sustainability@furman.edu
864-294-2076