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Learn how to bring Farm to keiki into your home and school. Take the Farm to Keiki Starter Course for FREE and get 3 DHS certificate hours!
Hands-on professional development for teachers and childcare professionals. Over 500 educators trained. In-person events paused for now.
High-quality online recipes, activities and other resources. This website is a companion to the Farm to Keiki book and will bring your lessons to life!
The goals of the survey were to:
● Establish baseline data for farm to ECE participation in the state
● Learn about existing farm to ECE activities taking place on sites across the state
● Assess challenges and successes in starting and implementing farm to ECE activities
● Determine trainings, resources, and networking tools to help providers start or grow farm to ECE activities, with a goal of making fame to ECE accessible to all children in Hawaii
This project improved access to local foods and agriculture education in Hawaii’s family child care homes by providing comprehensive Farm to CACFP/Farm to Keiki programming support, including:
● 195 child care providers participated in professional development webinars and received over 293 Department of Human Services professional development certificate hours.
● 2,027 Farm to Keiki learning packets were sent to providers and adult members (November ’21 – April ’22)
● Launched the Local Food Challenge! Participating family child care providers served locally grown foods 9,239 times from mid-September 2021 – April 2022!
● Provided over $5,000 of farm to CACFP materials to participating providers
The success of this pilot program was deeply rooted in the passion of our providers. Those who participated are going above and beyond to give Hawaii’s children the healthiest start in life possible… and one that is deeply connected to our local food systems, nature/’āina and community.
This project was made possible by the generosity and dedication of our project Key Partners:
Tiana Kamen and Annalea Brown Clay – Farm to Keiki
Jordan Smith – Hawaii Department of Health
Angela Choy Miyashiro, Jaime Goya and Mary-Ann Nemoto – Learning to Grow
Natalie Tang and the statewide Food Monitors- PATCH
Fran Becker – Na Lei Wili Area Health Education Coordinator (Fiscal Sponsor)
This project was generously funded at least in part with federal funds by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) through a USDA Farm to School Program Grant Award.
