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Good Food, Great Kids: Farm to ECE Case Studies

Case Study
By: National Farm to School Network, pfc Social Impact Advisors, the BUILD Initiative July 22, 2017
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These case studies examine the growing movement to bring healthy and wholesome food to children ages 0 to five in settings that prepare them for school, highlighting best practices from service providers on the leading edge of this work. The cases consider how policy development and reform can be a great support to ensuring the health and early development of children in vulnerable and hard to reach communities. Case studies include examples from Minnesota, Washington, D.C., New York, Iowa, Missouri and Philadelphia.

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