2024 Farm Fresh Challenge

What is the Summer 2024 Farm Fresh Challenge? 

The Summer 2024 Farm Fresh Challenge is an HNS initiative designed to empower CNP operators to cultivate excitement around fresh and locally sourced foods. Participating operators must complete challenges that promote participants' tasting, teaching, and connection to foods local to Arizona within the month of June.

What are the Summer 2024 Farm Fresh Challenge rules?

Participants of the Farm Fresh Challenge completed all TASTE, TEACH, and CONNECT activities for the challenge to be considered complete. 

• TASTE Arizona: Serve a minimum of three locally-sourced meal components (e.g., grain, dairy, fresh fruits or vegetables, eggs, or meat) during the week of your challenge to encourage your community to eat fresh, locally grown food.
• TEACH Arizona: Host a minimum of two educational activities during the week of your challenge. These educational activities included taste-testing local products, virtual or in-person field trips to local farms or farmers’ markets, inviting a farmer to visit your meal service, pen-pal programs with farmers, reading an Arizona agriculture-based book, virtual or in-person garden-based learning activities, or educational lessons focused on Arizona foods and agriculture.
• CONNECT Arizona: Share a minimum of one promotional material with your community that highlights your challenge activities (e.g., social media post, newspaper feature, newsletter, school website feature, posters or banners, etc.). Use #AZF2S or #FarmFreshAZ to expand the reach of your promotional efforts on social media!

Celebrate our Summer 2024 Awardees!

The following entities completed all TASTE, TEACH, and CONNECT activities during the month of June and were awarded the Gold tier! These sites met the minimum criteria of procuring three local menu items, hosting two educational activities, promoting the challenge, and went above and beyond by incorporating at least two additional hard-to-reach local food items in their menus.
Congratulations to our awardees!

• Humboldt Unified School District
• Madison Elementary School District
• Osborn School District
• Tucson Unified School District
• Washington Elementary School District

We look forward to seeing you participate in future challenges and how your participants TASTE, TEACH, and CONNECT with Arizona grown foods!

If you need any assistance throughout the challenge, please email [email protected].