Conor is actively involved in the school nutrition company who helps provide valuable insight on café modernization projects across the country His favorite part about working with schools is knowing that students and staff will love their modernized spaces. Being able to transform ordinary environments to extraordinary ones that students love being a part of is amazing! Conor graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing. Find Conor on LinkedIn Here! Digital Marketing Specialist, AmTab Manufacturing Conor Doyle Creating Spaces
Sustain the Earth and Your Program with Farm to School Program (F2S) Resources from the Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN) and the Child Nutrition Sharing Site (CNSS)! CNSS is an online information center providing Child Nutrition Programs (CNPs) with ameans for sharing effective programoperational resources. Thiswebsite is a collaboration between the ICN and the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service (USDA, FNS) and gives child nutrition professionals access to resources that support current Federal regulations, policies, and guidance. Within the Farm to School Topic Area of CNSS, users can access free resources categorized under the following sub-topics: • Building Your Farm to School Team • Defining and Finding Local Foods, Procurement Guidance and Regulations • Farm to School at Home • Farm to School Nutrition Education, Curriculum, and Careers in Agriculture • Menu Planning, Taste Testing, and Promoting Local Foods • Promoting Your Farm to School Program • Resources for Producers and for Working with Producers • School Gardens • Traditional/Native Food Resources
Sustainability at the Forefront
AmTab, in case you are not familiar, is a world- class American designer, manufacturer, and furnisher of high-impact food courts. Our main mission is to help create modern, popular, and fun spaces for students to enjoy. An underlying driving force that helps define who we are as a company is being a sustainable friendly company . From the designing, manufacturing packing, transportation, all the way to the furnishing process we follow all local, state, and federal environmental standards. It’s amazing what a company can not only accomplish for schools across the country, but also helping the environment with each food court completed. AmTab takes into account the impact that our products have on the environment and strategically designs them to maximize their sustainability. We incorporate renewable, recycled, and recyclable materials; use
innovative technology to make design considerations for the environment; and, address the end-of-life management and recovery options for the materials that make up our products. There is purpose in everything we do as a company. Sustainability is and has always been at the forefront of our fundamental values. Collaborating with the right manufacturer that not only can deliver state of the art furniture, amazing designs, but also is good for the environment is important. When looking to modernize your food court be sure to look at all aspects of the company. See what they do well, meet with the team who you will be working with and see their core values. Those values will help define and create a wonderful space for your students to be a part of.
And while you’re on the CNSS, submit your own F2S resources! Visit the Submission Form and under “Type of Program,” choose
Farm to School, and complete the form. Your resources will be reviewed by the USDA, FNS Office of Community Food Systems staff. You will receive an email notification if there are questions and when the resource has been added to the Resource Hub.
You can access all of the current F2S Resources at NO COST!
You can also find Farm to School Webinars on iLearn! Each 1-hour webinar features Farm to School topics and presenters.
Click here to Learn how your food court can be transformed!
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The Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN), part of the School of Applied Sciences at The University of Mississippi, is the only federally funded national center dedicated to applied research, education and training, and technical assistance for child nutrition programs. The Institute’s mission is to provide information and services that promote the continuous improvement of child nutrition programs. ICN Website About ICN
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