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The Farm to Institution Center

The Center’s Mission

To promote healthy local communities and build a vibrant agricultural scene through facilitation, collaboration, and education.

Vision

A San Diego where local food access serves as a pathway of better health, economic development, and community connectedness.

Goals

  • Increase access to and consumption of healthy foods in collaboration with school districts, hospitals, and institutional partners

  • Support farmers in the creation of a vibrant, diverse, and growing local agricultural scene

  • Instill a passion for local, healthy food through education, advocacy, and community engagement

What do we do?

Reimaging School Food

  • Networking around farm to school activities through the Farm to School Taskforce
  • District-wide strategic planning for growth in school gardens, nutrition education, and healthy school meals
  • Healthy school meal promotion through a county-wide marketing campaign
  • Nationally-recognized farm to school research reports

Supporting Farm Sustainability

  • Farmer business training in collaboration with experts to promote sustainability
  • Local food tradeshow events for regional networking between farmers and buyers
  • Brokering sales connections between local farmers and buyers
  • Research on the impact of local farm to institution connections

Promoting Healthy Communities

  • Collaboration and resource sharing among hospital food service staff
  • Hospital chef culinary workshops and competitions
  • Training on plant-based recipes and reduced food waste for hospital nutrition service teams
  • Food is Medicine webinars and roundtable discussions
Learn more at f2icenter.org


A resource developed by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) and Community Health Improvement Partner’s (CHIP) Farm to Institution Center.  Read it here.

Farm to School Curriculum
The Farm to School Student Curriculum was created to educate students on Farm to School and to assist educators with collecting information on students’ school meal preferences and perceptions.​ Read it here.

Contact Us

Alexis Anderson
Program Manager
The Farm to Institution Center
858-609-7961
Email Alexis

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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.