National Advocacy Organizations 

• American Farmland Trust: New Jersey
• Chef Ann Cooper: Renegade Lunch Lady
• Community Food Security Coalition 
• IATP Food and Society Fellows 
• The Food Trust
• The National Farm to School Network: Publications 
• Organic Consumers Association: Appetite For a Change Takes On School Food
• School Food Focus
• Publications 
• Slow Food USA: Slow Food in Schools
• USDA Farm to School Initiative

International Advocacy Organizations

• School Food Trust, UK
• Food Dudes, UK 

New Jersey State Agencies 

• New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Division 
• Reimbursement Rates--July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010
• NJ Model School Nutrition Policy Brochure
• Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value
• Exemption List: Can someone please explain how these items were exempted from being listed as Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value? Especially with the ingredients highlighted?
• New Jersey Department of Education, Student Health Survey 
• New Jersey School Directory

Articles 

• "A New Agenda for School Food", Jane Poppendieck
• “From Farm to School: Improving Small Farm Viability and School Meals.” 
• "Fresh, Healthy, and Safe Food: Best Practices for Using Produce from School Gardens"
• "Parenting and Food - Eat Your Peas. Or Don't. Whatever", Frank Bruni, NY Times.com
• "Thinking Outside the Lunchbox"
• "Radical in the Lunch Line: Baltimore's Geraci Grows a Hands-On Program", Washington Post

Research

• " A Garden Pilot Project Enhances Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Children"

• "Impact of Garden-Based Youth Nutrition Intervention Programs: A Review"
• "Benefits and Research Related to Farm-to-School", University of California Agricultural and Natural Resources
• National and state model school garden program examples
• National School Lunch Program Reimbursement Rates 2009-2010
• Review of Farm to School Evaluation Literature
• Child Nutrition Initiative: Healthy Kid Resources 

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School Gardens

• Working List of NJ School Garden Programs
• Princeton School Garden Cooperative Guide to School Gardens
• Adopt a School Garden: Kidsgardening.org
• How to Build a Lasagna Garden
• Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms, Center for Ecoliteracy
• Gardens for Learning: Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden
• Rethinking Curriculum: Center for Ecoliteracy
• Costs and logistics for starting a school garden 
• American Horticultural Society: Gardening Connections and Links

Food Service

• Support for School Lunch Programs
• Support for School Breakfast Programs 
• Suggestions for Improving School Lunches: A Primer 
• The Leopold Center-Calculating Food Miles
• USDA Guidance for School Food Authorities: Developing a School Food Safety Program Based on the Process Approach to HACCP Principles  
• USDA Guidance for School Food Authorities: Contracting with Food Service Management Companies
• Improving School Food Standards: The Positive Impact on Revenue 
• Minnesota Toolkit for Food Service EXCELLENT RESOURCE TO MODEL 

Food Policy 

• NJ Wellness Policy Rules 
• NJ Model School Nutrition Policy Resources
• Aligning Food Systems Policy to Address Public Health

• A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement 

  and Agricultural Policy

• Understanding Government Payments and Commodities

• Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity 
• School Food: Opportunities for Improvement 

Tools for Advocacy 

• Find your Legislator

Blogs and Periodicals

• City Farmer News: New Stories from "Urban Agricultural Notes"
• Poptech: MICHAEL POLLAN, WILL ALLEN, AND MARIJE VOGELZANG ON EDIBLE FUTURES
• Association for School Curriculum Development
• Taking on Big Soda over Taxes: Lessons Learned from Fighting Big Alcohol