The 4 Themes
This component is designed to help students find a lasting sense of purpose and place within Hawai‘i’s food systems transformation. Recommended activities begin with an overview of context, including feelings of overwhelm or anxiety that can be associated with climate change. What is needed? What do your students love to do? What are they best at? This is their ikigai – reason for being!
- Discovering Student Purpose in Farm to School
- Service Learning
- Supplementary Resources
- Working with Emotions
This component is designed to help students find a lasting sense of purpose and place within Hawai‘i’s food systems transformation. Recommended activities begin with an overview of context, including feelings of overwhelm or anxiety that can be associated with climate change. What is needed? What do your students love to do? What are they best at? This is their ikigai – reason for being!
This component is designed to help students find a lasting sense of purpose and place within Hawai‘i’s food systems transformation. Recommended activities begin with an overview of context, including feelings of overwhelm or anxiety that can be associated with climate change. What is needed? What do your students love to do? What are they best at? This is their ikigai – reason for being!
- Garden Safety
- Food Safety
- Safety Checklists
This component is designed to help students find a lasting sense of purpose and place within Hawai‘i’s food systems transformation. Recommended activities begin with an overview of context, including feelings of overwhelm or anxiety that can be associated with climate change. What is needed? What do your students love to do? What are they best at? This is their ikigai – reason for being!
- Planning Guides
- Additional HOM Resources
- HOM Local Crops Library
- Avocado (Pea)
- Banana (Mai‘a)
- Breadfruit (‘Ulu)
- Citrus (‘Ohana ‘Alani)
- Green Beans (Pāpapa)
- Papaya (Mīkana)
- Pipturus Albidus (Māmaki)
- Squash (Pala‘ai)
- Sweet Potato (‘Uala)
- Taro (Kalo)
About Hawai‘i’s Farm to School Movement
Farm to school programs involve school gardens and farms, education/curricular integration, and school food improvements through local food procurement to enhance the total well-being of students, families, schools, and community food systems.
The statewide Hawai‘i Farm to School Network was founded in 2010 with a collective mission to strengthen Hawaii’s farm to school movement by supporting our Island Networks in the areas of capacity building, resource development and sharing, professional development, and policy development and advocacy. The Hawai‘i Farm to School Network is a program of Hawai‘i Public Health Institute (HIPHI); learn more at hiphi.org/jointhehui.
Funding
Development of the Hawai‘i Farm to School Toolkit was supported by the Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP) Grant No. 2020-70026-33222, and Professional Development for Agricultural Literacy (PDAL) Grant No. 2023-67037-39950, from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Mahalo
Mahalo to the Kapi‘olani Community College, Service Learning & Sustainability Program for providing technical expertise on the service learning component of the toolkit and Groundswell Services, Inc. for project evaluation.
