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72 CHAPTER 04: PRIORITY OUTCOMES, INDICATORS AND MEASURESFarm to school practices can help ensure that students actually eat the healthy, local food on their school lunch trays.(Credit: Emily Heart Roth)According to a recent policy scan 58 , farm to schoolpolicies are not fully integrated in the educationsector. For example, less than one-third of US states,territories or tribal nations include positions orprograms specific to farm to school in departments ofeducation 58 .• Indicator 1 and its related measure focus onresource allocation, such as government bodiescreating farm to school positions or programs.• Indicators 2 and 3 and related measures areintended to ensure that school or early childeducation educators have resources such ascurriculum, training, materials and time to preparefor integrating farm to school activities into existingeducation efforts.Cross-Sector Connections for Prioritized OutcomesWith Public HealthFarm to school education activities teach core subjectareas. Through hands-on, experiential learning,students may become more excited and engaged.Further, if they are more excited about healthy foods,this could result in better attitudes toward healthyeating.With Economic DevelopmentFarm to school activities such as using produce froma school garden in school meals can increase thedemand to have these foods at home, encouragingparents to purchase them. This can lead to economicdevelopment outcomes when retailers carry localfoods familiar to students.With Environmental QualityFarm to school activities such as composting,recycling or reducing food waste can have an impacton environmental quality outcomes. These behaviorscan translate to new practices at home if parents orcare givers are involved in farm to school activities.See Chapter 4.5 for more information.EVALUATION FOR TRANSFORMATION