Join your friends & associates at the 2024 MSNA Annual Conference & Trade Show at the Chateau on the Lake in beautiful Branson, Missouri on November 1, 2, & 3, 2024. Keep checking back for more information as it becomes available.
ATTENDEE INFORMATION!
Pre-Conference Session on Friday, November 1, 2024
Pre-conference Session
8:00 am – 3:30 pm
Field of Dreams Farm2School: Build it and they will come. One small step at a time.
Presented by Barbara Shaw, DESE Food/Nutrition, Lisa Lauer, Dept. of Health & Senior Services, Emma Hohenberger, Mo Beef Kids, and Lori Danella, Director Lee’s Summit R7 Schools.
Join us to learn, celebrate and inspire the movement of bringing healthy, local, sustainably grown food to the minds and plates of our students in Missouri. In this session you will learn about procurement for local foods, how to get started, learn best practices and leave with action items to start your own program. You will hear from Mo Beef Kids whose mission is to provide more beef in school lunch programs while educating students about farm families and how beef is a nutrition powerhouse for student’s bodies. Information will be provided on local grant opportunities, procurement examples, recipes for local foods, Farm to School Q & A resource, crediting local beef, etc. The highlight of the session will be a Tour of the College of the Ozarks with lunch provided during the tour. “Hard Work U” as the College is known provides dining experiences with work done by students and products grown on campus. Their farm to table dining experience is like no other.
Lunch will be provided at the College of the Ozarks!
There will be a knife/culinary demo at the College of Ozarks. Upon returning to the Chateau on the Lake, DESE will provide an optional 30-45 min wrap-up to discuss “How to Apply for the Local Food for Schools (LFS) Funds” and answer any questions related to LFS.
Registration is $75.00, Limited to the First 40 Attendees!
Transportation and lunch at the College of the Ozarks will be provided for registered attendees. Attendance is limited to the first 40 registrations received.
Farm to School Education Opportunity
DESE is looking to distribute sub-grant Farm to School funds to School Food Service Professionals planning to attend the Missouri School Nutrition Association (MSNA) Conference. With the award the attendee must register and participate in the Field of Dreams Farm2School: Build it and they will come. One small step at a time.
Funds will be distributed, first, to those that are new MSNA members or first time MSNA conference attendees and have an interest in learning more about Farm to School.
A one-time payment of $500 will be processed to the non-profit food service account. The funds can be used to cover conference expenses including registration, lodging, meals and travel. For the scholarship application Click here: MSNA Pre-conference Farm to School (F2S) Scholarship Application APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING TAKEN
ATTENDEE CONFERENCE PROGRAM: CLICK HERE!
PRE-CONFERENCE & CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED!
SATURDAY OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rufus “Raisin’ the Rufe” Stephens will join us as the opening keynote speaker on Saturday morning. For more information about Rufus, check out his website at www.raisintherufe.com
SUNDAY CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Bart Christian will join us as the closing keynote speaker on Sunday morning. For more information about Bart, visit his website www.bartchristian.com
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