Field to Fork Application Extension

Due to overwhelming feedback from teachers, Field to Fork has extended the application deadline for the spring 2014 semester to Friday, December 6, 2013. 

Applications should be submitted via email to F2FCLT@gmail.com. Contact Tyler Harding at 804/337-8835 with questions. 

* Reminder: CMS elementary schools with an existing garden are still eligible to apply. Schools without a garden are also eligible and will be awarded a garden upon acceptance.

Your class could have the chance to experience hands-on healthy eating with its very own pizza garden.  Apply today! 

CMS Teachers, Field to Fork is Now Accepting Applications for Spring!

Your elementary class could win a Field to Fork healthy pizza garden! 

Field to Fork is bringing healthy pizza gardens to 15 CMS elementary classrooms this spring 2014. 

Winning classes will receive a pizza garden as well as gardening, nutrition and in-class culinary lessons and a field trip to Fuel Pizza to make healthy pizzas using produce from the garden. Raised bed gardens will be awarded to schools without an existing garden.  All interested CMS elementary teachers are encouraged to apply! 

Applications must be submitted to F2FCLT@gmail.com by Tuesday, November 26, 2013. 

For questions or more information, please contact Tyler Wallace, program coordinator, at  (804) 337-8835 or the above email. 

Field to Fork Students Head to FUEL Pizza

Local Field to Fork students gathered up their tomatoes, their spinach, their green peppers, their basil and their oregano.

They had been waiting for the right moment to pick their produce from their pizza garden.

Some of the produce looked good, some, not so good.

You know how it is - gardening has lots of variables.

Whatever looked good, the students hauled on the bus and brought to Fuel Pizza.

They used their own produce to make personal, vegetarian pizzas on multi-grain crust.

Polo Ridge headed to Fuel in Southend last week.  Manager Bob Puhl and the Fuel team showed the students around the kitchen.

The students then received the top secret lesson at Fuel Pizza - how to make the best pizza pie in Charlotte.

The students were instructed on how much sauce to use, how many toppings, how much cheese and the perfect amount of herbs.

What came out of the oven, was a healthy, bubbly and tasty pizza made by students.

Ms. Jones and Ms. White from Polo Ridge helped get the students ready for the field trip.

Thanks for coming into FUEL to make your pizzas.  We hope you have a great summer!

Students Learn how to Make Pizza Dough

Culinary classes are underway.

FUEL Pizza is visiting all of the Field to Fork classrooms to teach the students how to make FUEL Pizza dough.

Fuel Pizza Managing Partner, Zach Current and Catering Coordinator, Sarah Hosseini review the FUEL Pizza dough recipe with the students.

We then mix all of the "secret" ingredients togther, and show them how yeast starts working in the dough to help it rise.

First, it starts off as a stringy, sticky mess.

But soon, after we knead the dough it becomes more smooth and flexible. 

The students are then allowed to touch the dough and ask questions.

Below are pictures from a recent visit at Polo Ridge Elementary.

Ms. Jones' class was awesome! Thanks for being such a great group of students - we can't wait to see you at FUEL Pizza in a couple of weeks for your field trip.

Plants are lookin' good after Spring Break!

This is an update from Field to Fork Board Member Andrew Thiessen:

As always we had some loss over spring break--ol' Murphy's Law! But overall we're in great shape. The tomatoes in particular grew like crazy!!!

I'm loading plants now at Metro & looking forward to getting these plants in gardens today!

Spring 2013 Participating Schools Announced!

It was a great surprise at Miss "G's" class on Friday.  Students at Nations Ford Elementary were told they are one of the 15 schools selected to particpate in the Field to Fork program.  Field to Fork program reps were there to congratulate the students.  FUEL Pizza Manager, Marc Zimmerman delivered some yummy Veggie Pizzas on Whole Wheat crust to kick off the program.  I was there in the classroom, and I can honestly say no one, and I mean not-a-one student picked off the vegetables on their pizzas, or refused to eat the veggie pizza (which is always something I slightly scared of).  I even heard some, "mmm yum" and "I love this pizza."

After the pizza party, we went out to look at the future pizza gardens.  We've got some cleaning up work to do around the gardens, but once that's done - the students will be ready to plant their Spring seeds.

The 15 Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools who are receiving Pizza Gardens at their school, nutrition and cooking education and an end-of-the-year pizza party from FUEL Pizza cafe are: Briar Wood Elementary, Chantilly Montessori, Collins Wood Elementary, Davidson Elementary, Elizabeth Traditional Elementary, Idlewild Elementary, JV Washam Elementary, Lake Wylie Elementary, Morehead STEM Academy, Nations Ford Elementary, Winget Park Elementary, University Meadows Elementary, University Meadows Elementary, Barringer Elementary, Highland Mill Elementary and Polo Ridge.

Here is the news coverage from kickoff:
http://www.wcnc.com/home/Field-to-Fork-program-promotes-healthy-chocie-for-students--191399741.html

TEACHERS! We are accepting applications for Spring 2013

Do you want to teach your students about eating healthy? Think Pizza! Field to Fork, a non-profit program that FUEL Pizza co-founded is accepting applications for the Spring Semester of 2013. Contact me at sarahh@fuelpizza.com, or field2fork2013@gmail.com to receive an application. All applications are due January 31, 2013. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools only.