This document provides resources for evaluating farm to school programs, including a toolkit from Wisconsin that highlights strategies for evaluation, an activity tracker spreadsheet to document farm to school activities, and an evaluation framework developed by the National Farm to School Network to define potential outcomes of farm to school programs. It also lists a evaluation toolkit from Colorado that can help farm to school programs of all sizes conduct evaluations. Contact information is provided for presenters who can provide more information.

1.
Evaluation
Resources
Wisconsin
Farm
to
School:
Toolkit
for
School
Nutrition
Programs,
Evaluate
Your
Work:
This
section
of
the
Toolkit
highlights
strategies
for
evaluating
your
farm
to
school
program
to
demonstrate
impact,
communicate
the
value
of
your
work,
and
help
you
effectively
target
resources.
(http://www.cias.wisc.edu/wp-­‐content/uploads/2014/03/8-­‐evaluate-­‐your-­‐work.pdf)
Farm
to
School
Activity
Tracker:
This
interactive
spreadsheet
permits
your
school
to
articulately
describe
the
scope
and
depth
of
activities
you
choose
to
uniquely
implement
and
offer
your
students
through
your
farm
to
school
program
during
one
school
year.
(User
guide:
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/foodservtools14/7-­‐evaluate-­‐your-­‐work/monthly-­‐activity-­‐reports-­‐
user-­‐guide.pdf
F2SAT:
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/foodservtools14/7-­‐evaluate-­‐your-­‐work/monthly-­‐activity-­‐reports.xlsx)
Evaluation
for
Transformation:
A
Cross-­‐Sectoral
Evaluation
Framework
for
Farm
to
School:
Developed
by
the
National
Farm
to
School
Network
and
Upstream
Public
Health,
this
document
defines
the
outcomes
that
farm
to
school
has
the
potential
to
achieve
and
offers
common
language,
guidelines,
and
metrics
to
understand
those
outcomes.
(http://www.farmtoschool.org/resources-­‐main/evaluation-­‐
framework)
Colorado
Farm
to
School
Evaluation
Toolkit:
Created
by
the
Colorado
Farm
to
School
Task
Force
and
Spark
Policy
Institute,
this
resource
helps
farm
to
school
programs
of
all
sizes,
in
all
states,
undertake
evaluation.
(http://coloradofarmtoschool.org/schools/evaluation/)
Presenter
Contacts:
Claire
Berezowitz
–
ckberezowitz@wisc.edu
Andrea
Bontrager-­‐Yoder
–
ayoder@wisc.edu
Beth
Hanna
–
beth@communitygroundworks.org