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USDA Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program
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The Farm to School program exists in order to assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Child Nutrition Programs. The program objectives for the implementation and State agency track grants include improve access to local foods in eligible Child Nutrition Program sites through comprehensive farm to school programming that includes local sourcing and agricultural education efforts. Objectives for the turnkey track grants include: development of an action plan to facilitate launching or scaling farm to school activities; plan, implement, and evaluate a food production operation (e.g., school garden) that produces food for Child Nutrition operator activities; plan, implement, and evaluate the integration of farm to school topics into Child Nutrition program sites' curriculum.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
FY 2016: Planning - $1 million; Implementation - $1.4 million; Support service - $2.4 million; Training - $.7 million. FY 2016: Planning - $.8 million; Implementation - $1.5 million; Support service - $2.0 million; Training - $.5 million.
Planning - $1 million; Implementation - $1.2 million; Support service - $2.2 million; Training - $.5 million.
Planning - $0.8 million; Implementation - $4.1 million; Training - $.2 million
Planning - $1.5 million; Implementation - $7.5 million; Training - $0.3 million
Implementation - $7.5 million; State Agency- $896,404; Turnkey - $3.5 million.
Grants will serve more than 1.9 million students across 43 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
