FNS Documents & Resources

Find resources to implement, sustain and maintain your farm to school program. 

The purpose of Farm to Food Bank Projects is to (a) reduce food waste at the agricultural production, processing, or distribution level through the donation of food, (b) provide food to individuals in need, and (c) build relationships between agricultural producers, processors, and distributors and emergency feeding organizations through the donation of food.

This fact sheet outlines a number of additional resources for those seeking to directly purchase or raise food products for school nutrition programs.

This factsheet reviews best practices for producers to learn about how to sell local food to schools.

This fact sheet presents effective strategies for supporting community food systems.

A document with questions and answers regarding the FDPIR Self-Determination Demonstration Project round two funds.

Farm to preschool works to connect early child care and education settings to local food producers with the objectives of serving locally-grown, healthy foods to young children, providing related nutrition education, and improving child nutrition.

The Farm to Child Nutrition Planning Guide directs you through questions to consider when starting or growing a farm to school, farm to child care, or farm to summer program. This planning guide should be used as a supplemental tool to the Farm to School Planning Toolkit. 

The State of Origin data report for each fiscal year includes information on states where USDA purchased foods in that year. Learn where your USDA Foods are likely to come from, and what the top food is in your state!

Project summaries for the 29 TEFAP state agencies that received fiscal year 2022 Farm to Food Bank project funding.