Celebrating local food, farmers & nutrition education!
Nassau County School District’s Food & Nutrition Services mission is to “build a foundation for student learning by providing nutritious, high-quality food choices that are attractive, reasonably priced & served in a safe and courteous environment.”
Celebratin g local food, farmers & nutrition education!
Most satsumas grown in Florida are October
Satsumas are a category of citrus fruits that mandarins
“Easy
Peelers”
Satsumas are easier to peel than most other citrus fruit.
Satsumas make for a perfect snack!
Satsuma trees take around years to start producing fruit.
Satsuma trees are evergreen. Satsumas are one of the most resilient citrus fruits to cold weather.
Cherokee Ranch is a familyoperated satsuma grove.
The Glass family – the family behind Cherokee Satsumas.
Cherokee Ranch is a 6generation family operation.
Cherokee Ranch was started in …over 100 years ago!
Home to 600 satsuma trees planted in 2002.
Cherokee Ranch provide their satsumas to 10 counties in Florida. Visitors are welcome to purchase freshly picked satsumas at the farm!
“Good food, grown by good farmers, for good people.”
Cherokee Ranch is located in Marianna, Florida.
Lafayette and Okeechobee are Florida’s leading dairy counties.
Most of the dairy cows in Florida are Holsteins (the black and white cows), and their spots are unique like a fingerprint!
Cows chew their cud 50 times per minute.
How many times can chew in a minute?!
Cows can SEE almost and SMELL up to 6 miles away!
Most Florida dairy herds range 150 -
Florida dairy farmers byproducts such as citrus pulp, brewers’ grain and whole cottonseed that are consumed by the cows instead of ending up in landfills.
A Florida dairy cow produces about 68 gallons of milk each day.
M&B Dairy is a 4th-generation family dairy farm that is home to over 700 dairy cows the dairy industry through all aspects of their production.
M&B Dairy is currently run by Dale McClellan.
Located in Lecanto, FL.
M&B Dairy prioritizes COMFORT for their cows with open-air barns and rubber mats in stalls.
“Buffy the Cow” is M&B Dairy’s mascot.
M&B Dairy provides milk to over 32 school districts in Florida.
M&B Dairy was started in the 1950s.
