Source Local Food

View the Colorado Local Food Program Guidebook developed by Nourish Colorado for tools and resources to launch, implement and sustain farm to school programs. This resource guides child nutrition program sponsors through purchasing, preparing and promoting local products and includes resources to involve communities in farm to school and set up school gardening programs

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LOCAL FOOD PROGRAM GUIDEBOOK - NOURISH CO

Local Food Program

The Local Food Program (LFP) Pilot has been extended for School Year 2024-25. The LFP offers eligible Child Nutrition Sponsors funding for the purchase of Colorado grown, raised, or processed products. The intent of this funding is to encourage local purchases and off-set the cost of Colorado grown, raised, processed, and value-added products. This is a competitive process and sponsors must apply for funding. All sponsors operating Healthy School Meals for All, as well as individual charter school sites, residential and facility schools, are eligible to apply. The amount of funding sponsors will receive is dependent upon the number of school lunches provided during school year 2023-24 multiplied by a minimum of $0.05, or a minimum of $1,000, whichever is greater. Approximately $500,000 is available for the 2024-25 school year. Sponsors are ineligible to participate in the pilot extension if more than 2,150,000 lunches are served in the 2023-24 school year.

LFP Grantee Webinar SY 2024-25

LFP SY 2024-25 INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR

Local Food Program Grantees

A total of $500,000 was awarded to the following 32 sponsors for SY 2024-25:

Academy of Charter Schools	Boulder Valley RE-2	Calhan RJ-1	Campo RE-6	Charter School Institute - The STEAD School	Colorado Early Colleges - Fort Collins	Community Leadership Academy	Creede School District
Durango 9-R	Eagle County RE-50	Englewood 1	Frenchman RE-3	Greeley 6	Gunnison Watershed RE1J	Lamar RE-2	Mancos RE-6
Mapleton 1	Moffat County RE-1	Montrose County RE-1J	North Conejos RE-1J	Pueblo City 60	Roaring Fork RE-1	Salida R-32	South Routt RE-3
Swink 33	The Pinnacle Charter School	Thompson R2-J	Trinidad 1	Vilas RE-5	Weld RE-4	West End RE-2	Windsor Charter Academy

Program Resources

Farm to School Program

Farm to School programs connect communities to healthy, fresh and local food by supporting local farmers and producers, providing nutrition and agricultural education and supporting schools in establishing school gardens and agricultural programs.