Monthly Food Menus

Click on the links below to check out the delicious foods that are on the menu for this month.

Ravalli Head Start is participating in Montana Harvest of the Month!!

Each month, our preschool along with other participating centers, K-12 schools, and healthcare facilitates throughout Montana will showcase one locally or Montana grown or raised food by

a) serving it in a meal or snack,

b) offering taste tests to children, and

c) doing educational activities.

The two primary goals for this program are to expose students to new, healthy foods and to support Montana’s farmers and ranchers.

September Food of the Month

There are 3700+ species of Brassicaceae, or the Brassica plant family, ranging from cauliflower to kohlrabi! Use the materials below to showcase brassicas this month.

What do cabbage, broccoli, and rutabaga have in common? They are all this month’s Harvest of the Month food. Brassicas are a diverse vegetable in the mustard family and depending on the variety, we eat different parts of the plant: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds! Many of the Brassicas that we enjoy as food today either originated in northwest Europe or the Mediterranean but over the past 2,000 years,

Brassicas were most likely domesticated in the Mediterranean region. The ancient Greeks recorded medicinal and culinary uses of Brassicas. Learn more about Brassicas through Montana Harvest of the Month!

Check out MontanaFarmToSchool for more fun facts.

mtharvestofthemonth.org

#MTHarvestoftheMonth

#MTFarmtoSchool

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