Publications

FEATURED BOOKS

Education Nation

The Farmer's Market Salad Bar has received wide-spread attention from those who have published about the ground-breaking and pioneering farm-school program.

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Food Justice

The Farmers' Market Salad Bar Program provided students with access to fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, while creating a market for the small farmer to sell their crops.

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Smart By Nature

Smart by Nature shows how schools and districts across the country are orienting their activities around environmental responsibility and wisdom: in gardens and cafeterias, on campuses, with nature-based curriculums, and in the communities that surround their schools.

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Environmentalism Unbound

A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life.

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Under Secretary Concannon Visits Riverside for Farmer's Market Salad Bar Program 5th Anniversary

I enjoyed meeting Rodney Taylor, school district director of nutrition services, who is often referred to as the “King of Farm to School.”

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Announcing Keynote Speakers for 9th National Farm to Cafeteria Conference

We are thrilled to announce our conference keynote speakers. Rodney K. Taylor is the Director of Food and Nutrition Services for the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCSP), in Va. FCPS is the 10th largest district in the U.S. with 188,000 students, in 194 schools, providing 149,000 meals per day.

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2019 Silver Plate Series: Rodney Taylor

Rodney received the 2019 Silver Plate Award in the Elementary & Secondary Schools category, nominated by Ecolab.

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Forging Frontiers

It was a time when most of the nation’s cafeteria food was what Rodney Taylor, then the district’s director of food and nutrition services, calls “heat and serve”—that is, “prepackaged, highly processed.”

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