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What innovative recipe, process, practice, or technology, are you currently taking advantage of with success in your program?
School District of New Richmond New Richmond, Wisconsin
Rialto USD San Bernardino County, California
Our department has partnered with our High School Ag Depart- ment’s 100% SCHOOL RUN farm - SOAR Farm (Students’ Op- portunities with Agricultural Resources). In summary, our high school has an absolutely amazing leader and teacher Mrs. Rachel Sauvola who created the vision of a student farm supported by the community. With her leadership the farm is 100% ran and sup- ported by students and volunteers. The farm is home to beef cattle, goats, ducks, chickens and of course a couple farm cats. Where does school nutrition come in? The majority of the beef produced from this farm goes directly into school lunch! A typical year results in about 5,000 pounds of beef bring brought in to school meals directly from a school based farm. We work with a local butcher who provides us with the most amazing roasts, ground meat, and stir first strips. From these items we create delicious beef roasts in our scratch made gravy, all of the districts taco meat for tacos and nachos, an amazing scratch made beef and broccoli recipe, as well as our most recent adaptation of a bolognese entree. Any beef not processed for school meals is sold in a community style school farmers market and to local restaurants. All funds raised on these sales help sup- port the continuation of the farm itself. The farm itself has been visited by folks from all over the world, Wisconsin education leaders, and many students on regular field trips to learn about where their food comes from. The newest innovation comes this year when our school nutrition department partnered with the farm and finalized our state of Wisconsin meat broker license. School Nutrition Director, Bobbie Guyette, and her family are regular farm chore volunteers during school breaks (snow and blazing sun) to give students a break. Fun fact: a video of us making scratch made taco meat on tic tok has received 8.8 million views and counting! @realschoolfood!
We are currently utilizing Canva as a tool to create our social me- dia content as well as presentations and awards for staff. We are able to engage with our students, parents, staff and community and we keep them updated on the scratch cooked meals we are preparing daily for our scholars! Social media has allowed us to keep a real time relationship with our students - and utilizing the great features of Canva, we are able to create beautiful content that showcases the nutritious meals that so many staff members put their heart and soul into making.
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