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6825 Officer's Row, Suite C, #5
PO Box 1275, Tillamook, OR 97141
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Farm To School
We believe all children in our community have the right to a healthy future. Our Farm to School program champions this belief through garden-based education; farmer, food producer, and local food systems professional visits to classrooms; farm field trips; and local food tastings. These activities promote healthy habits, support academic, social, and behavioral development in students, and build relationships between families and local food producers.
Farm to School supports long-term, positive change, and we see the impact of our work daily in our interactions with students and their families.
Garden-Based Education in Tillamook County
2023-2024 School Partners Include
​Neah-Kah-Nie School District:
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Garibaldi Grade School
TSD9 School District:
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Tillamook Junior High School
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East Elementary School
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Liberty Elementary School
Nestucca Valley School District:
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Nestucca K-8
Non-School District Partners:
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Tillamook Early Learning Center
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Head Start
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Does your school want to partner? Reach out to us to inquire!
Farmer and Family Engagement
Our Farm to School program shortens the distance between eaters and growers by offering students and their families the opportunity to eat local food and meet local farmers, fishers, and other local food producers and food systems professionals. We regularly host schoolwide Tasting Tables for students to sample local food: we’ve tried everything from salad greens to purple-fleshed potatoes to raw beets to collard green rapini, and we’ve seen student preference for this produce rise over time.
To connect students to where this produce comes from, we take field trips to local farms like Nehalem River Ranch, Alder Creek Farm, and Circe's Garden. We also bring local food producers and food systems professionals to the classroom, including Oregon Seaweed farmers from the Port of Garibaldi.
We collaborate with schools to host school-day programming as well as resources and support via Garden Parties and other family-centered community engagement activities. We invite families to spend time in their school gardens to learn more about the benefits of gardening for social and emotional well-being.
Our Farm to School
Program is supported by
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Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization
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Oregon Department of Education
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USDA - Farm to School
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Ford Family Foundation
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Spirit Mountain Community Trust
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Tillamook County Creamery Association
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Tillamook School District #9
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Nestucca Valley & Neah-Kah-Nie School Districts
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Braemer Charitable Trust
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Tillamook Kiwanis Club
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Nehalem Bay Garden Club
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And many individual donors & supporters