Farm to

School Menu
& Event
Planning

By: Candace Ellery, Abby Ford, Sarah Nahum,

Denielle Saitta, & Tina Truong

Event Proposal
Recipe: Farmers Fall Mix (Lettuce mix with apples, sweet cranberries,
and an apple cider vinaigrette dressing)
Promotional Activities: School Dress Up, Farmer Trading Cards, Fruit &
Vegetable Trivia Game
Bulletin Board: Harvesting Healthy Foods
Marketing Methods: Flyer, Announcement, Table Decorations, Popsicle
Sticks, Website

Standardized Recipe
Yield: 8 servings per recipe
Per serving: 1.004 c (volume) 3.396 oz (weight)

Expanded taste test Recipe

Yield: 300 servings per recipe
Per serving: 0.533 c (volume) 1.929 oz (weight)
Factor = [300 servings x 0.50 c] (new yield) / [8 servings x 1 c] (original yield) = 150/8 =18.75

updated Lunch Menu

Recipe
Yield: 300 servings per recipe

Per serving: 0.773 c (volume) 1.685 oz (weight)

Factor = [300 servings x 0.50 c] (new yield) / [220 servings x 0.50 c] (taste test yield) = 150/110 = 1.36

Non-Food Supply List

One plastic cutting board

Two serrated knives
One 8-quart aluminum mixing bowl
One Combi oven
One oven mitt
Three aluminum 4-quart measuring cups
One tsp
One 9 X 11 aluminum pan
One pair of tongs
One 12 whisk
Three hundred cup styrofoam bowls
Five hair nets
Gloves of various sizes

Promotional Activities
School Dress Up
Sticker giveaways
T-shirt giveaway
Farmer Trading Cards
Fruit & Vegetable Trivia Game
Seed Packet giveaways
Pencil giveaways

Sticker
Giveawa
ys

T-shirt Giveaway

Tradin
g
Cards

Fishheads
Aquaponics

Mercier
Orchard

Pencil
Giveawa
ys

Seed Packet Giveaways

Marketing Strategies
Flyer
School Announcement
Tabletop Decorations
Recipe Sign
Farm to School Sign
Popsicle Stick Handouts
Community Website
Calendar Menu
Bulletin Board
Taste Test Survey Board

Marketi
ng
Flyer

Tabletop Decorations

Popsicle
Stick
Handouts

Calend
ar
Menu

Bulletin
Board

Taste Test
Survey
Board

Daily Staffing Schedule

Comprehensive Event
Schedule

Event
Photos
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Event
Photos
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Event
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Event
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Photos
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Event
Photos
Abby

taste test recipe costs

Taste Test Non-Food

Supplies Costs

Updated Lunch Menu

Recipe Costs

updated Lunch Menu NonFood SUPPLIES Costs

Promotional Costs

Marketing Costs

Labor Costs

Comprehensive Event
Budget

Project Evaluation
We made changes to our recipe to fit school budget and student food
preferences
Our promotional activities engaged students, faculty, and staf
Our event was strong due to our good teamwork and problem solving
skills
An area for improvement was to control students reactions during
fruit & vegetable trivia game