Agriculture

Chopped organic Romaine Lettuce: Building the Infrastructure for Organic School Meals

By • • Community

For years, we’ve heard the same thing from school districts across California: We want to serve organic romaine lettuce, but we simply don’t have the labor to process it in-house. And they’re right. While whole-head romaine works beautifully in commercial kitchens and smaller programs, most school food operations don’t have the staff, time, or infrastructure […]

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Gathering at The Ecology Center: A Day of Learning, Collaboration, and Organic Growth

By • • Community, Road Tour

During the summer of 2025, Conscious Kitchen set out on the Organic Farm-to-School Road Tour to connect small and mid-sized organic farms with school districts across California. With a vision of providing every student in the state with fresh, local, and organic food, this initiative invites school food service leaders, farmers, and community partners to

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Earth Day: Expanding Organics Through Farm to School

By • • Community

Why do we love Earth Day? Because the day calls on us to reflect upon the most wonderful gift we have received—the earth, our home. This year, we celebrated with California’s First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and many like-minded champions of the state’s Farm to School initiatives, local leaders who are dedicated to transforming school

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Conscious Kitchen’s Alternative Spring Break

By • • Community, Equity and Justice

What better way to spend spring break than conducting on-the-ground research to build food systems that support the health and wellbeing of people and planet? That’s exactly what Conscious Kitchen did with our Organic Farm to School Mapping Project and a passionate cohort of six local college and university students this spring. This cohort came

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture & CA First Partner Pay Conscious Kitchen a Visit 

By • • Community, Equity and Justice, WCCUSD

We are always proud of our work with Conscious Kitchen! What a joy to share our organic school food program in person with top leaders across our country for National School Breakfast Week. USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Congressman John Garamendi, and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond joined Conscious

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