Fw: National Hispanic Heritage Month

Greetings,

It's National Hispanic Heritage Month! 🎉 Recently, the National Farm to School Network reached out to partners about celebrations for Hispanic Heritage Month which is September 15 - October 15. We're forwarding these awesome resources from IDEA Public Schools in Texas as inspiration for your potential programming! A few other resources related to school food include the Chef Ann Foundation's page and recipes from the School Nutrition Association.

We would also love to know if any Michigan schools have already had or are planning any celebrations of their own. Feel free to reply directly or share with the rest of the listserv!

Best,

Megan

Megan McManus 

(she/her/hers)

Farm to Institution Specialist

MSU Center for Regional Food Systems

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From: Rocio Hernandez <rocio.hernandez@ideapublicschools.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 6:06 PM
To: Jiyoon Chon <jiyoon@farmtoschool.org>; partners@farmtoschool.org <partners@farmtoschool.org>
Cc: Ananya Kumar <communications@farmtoschool.org>; Stephanie Buentello <stephanie.buentello@ideapublicschools.org>; Deborah Ray <deborah.ray@ideapublicschools.org>
Subject: Re: [NFSN Partners] How are you celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month?

 

Good afternoon @Jiyoon Chon, 

I love this effort & felt as though I had share the amazing work the IDEA Public Schools Child Nutrition Program is putting forth this National Hispanic Heritage month. 

The collaborative efforts are spearheaded by both the IDEA Nutrition team, consisting of the amazing staff developing the menu with culturally relevant foods and the IDEA Farms team, who ensures these crops are grown to the highest quality standard and delivered to our district cafeterias for our kiddos. 

The Hispanic Heritage Month strategies we're using along with the developed resources are linked below: 

1. "Harvest of the Month" (HOM): A direct opportunity to generate excitement from staff, parents & students by selecting a crop to showcase. This Hispanic Heritage month, we selected peppers! Attached, you'll find the HOM video that was posted across our social media's & the HOM booklets that's given to students across all our 100+ campuses. 
1. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/cMX2qfeprezn7rww/?mibextid=WC7FNe (If you have issues with the link, you can find the Facebook page listed under: "IDEA Public Schools Child Nutrition Program"
2. Attached and labeled as: 1 & 2, September Harvest of the Month in both English & Spanish. 
2. "Harvest in the Halls": An opportunity for our staff to engage students in the halls throughout the school day! This promotes fun dialogue, taste testing, Q & A and best of all, input/buy-in from our kiddos. 
1. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/JaSqeMX71d4J7DCz/?mibextid=WC7FNe
1. If you have issues watching the video, please feel free to find us at "IDEA Public Schools Child Nutrition Program"

Thank you so much for giving us the chance to promote our work, as we love what we do and hope it inspires others to jump on the exciting Farm to School bandwagon. 

Lots of love, 

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From: Jiyoon Chon <jiyoon@farmtoschool.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 12:42 PM
To: partners@farmtoschool.org <partners@farmtoschool.org>
Cc: Ananya Kumar <communications@farmtoschool.org>
Subject: [NFSN Partners] How are you celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month?

 

Hello Partners, 

Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! In honor of this month, the communications team at National Farm to School Network would love to highlight how our Partners are celebrating in schools this year. 

We are looking to feature a handful of programs that have plans for incorporating cultural foods or traditions into the celebrations, such as serving specific culturally relevant dishes to students. We would love to uplift and highlight the diversity of cultural experiences within our communities. 

If you're interested in participating in the feature, please respond to this email and let me know how you are celebrating! 

Thank you all for your great work, and we're looking forward to hearing how you are honoring Hispanic Heritage Month!

Best, 

Jiyoon Chon 

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	Jiyoon Chon (she/her/hers) Communications Manager, National Farm to School Network
	Based in New York, New York
	jiyoon@farmtoschool.org
	www.farmtoschool.org

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