Field-to-Flavor Tour Held at Freeman SD K8 MPR on

Sunday, July 28, 2024

The Field to Flavor tour was a Washington School Nutrition Association pre-conference event. The event included a farm-to-school and local foods in schools that started with a farm tour Casa Cano Farms (website at https://casacanofarms.com/). Casa Cano Farms is a vegetable and livestock farm in Valleyford, WA, 12 miles south of Downtown Spokane. They have been very active in selling to school districts for two years. Attendees learned about how they have worked with schools and how this has impacted their business. Next, attendees headed to the Freeman School District kitchen to test some of the most popular farm to school dishes in the Eastern WA region with Chef Mataio Gillis of Culinary Concepts. Attendees sampled various recipes prepared by Chef Gillis, and learned tips and tricks for cooking these items, as well as how to enhance flavor and add choices with toppings bars

Click here to view the Culinary Concepts Recipes