Statewide Farm to ECE Meeting Notes
8/15/23
Attendance:
Haley Holeton -FPAC
Elisa Munoz- FPAC
Angela Louis-Kelly
Ashlyn Dyess- Early Childhood Manager Well Ahead LA
Cindy George- Children’s Coalition NE LA
Frannie Einterz- PEG
Jenna Rhoads- PEG
Julie Knight - Louisiana Office of Public Health- Healthy Communities Manager
Makenzie Miller- LSU Ag Center
Sarah Newton- Eat Move Grow
Toya Porter- LA Dept Education, education consultant
Valerie Vincent- LSU Ag Center, PSE work Northshore
Crystal Besse- LA Farm to School
Joshua McDonald
New Logo:
Use as you wish!
Go through questions on Proof of Concept and provide feedback:
Ask about are they using CACFP and how many snacks are being served. Are they buying/incorporating local into snacks/meals?
Make sure we are gathering and sharing enough information but show you can do Farm to ECE even if you are working towards local procurement.
Can we assume that they know what we mean when we say Farm to ECE or do we need a definition? - hopefully those we are collecting from will know what it is and as we share more will understand the work they are doing is Farm to ECE
Volunteering, community support and parent engagement- make sure we have a question/highlight about this
Ask about the approach
After the Children's Coalition, who next? Who should be our Proof of Concept Centers?
Let’s Be Healthy Centers?
Decide next meeting
Objective 2: Plan and implement at least six annual promotional activities:
Sometime in October for the first event
Satsuma peel? Week of October 23
FPAC to work on flyers and communications
Make sure we can connect centers to satsuma Farmers
Please let FPAC know if you are interested in helping with these tasks!
Send out email about WG and the Farm to School Conference
Will be on FPAC website and transferred to PDF to share
Ashlynn to send logo to add
Next Meeting:
September 12th at 1pm
Next Steps
Work with Cindy on Proof of Concept Highlight
If you have a center in mind, email Elisa or Haley
Work with Crystal on Great Satsuma Peel for ECE’s
Next meeting we will go over more details for Satsuma Peel
Next meeting we will try to pick a new site
Talk through next promotional event that is more educational based on what Farm to ECE is
