Farm to Prison Programs
Based on Results from a 2013 Survey
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Name |
Location |
Please
give a brief description of your Farm to Cafeteria program |
Who is the
primary contact person for the program? |
Email address |
Phone number |
Who
participated in starting the Farm to Cafeteria program? |
What year
did your institution start serving local food? |
On average,
how many meals does your institution serve a day? |
If your
institution offers overnight accommodation, how many people generally spend
the night? |
What are
the program's goals for upcoming years? |
What
local/Montana foods does your institution purchase? Please list. |
Who are the
main local food producers your institution purchases from? |
How much of
your institution's food budget is spent on local/Montana food each year? *nearest estimate okay - Dollar Amount: |
How much of
your institution's food budget is spent on local/Montana food each year? |
How often
does your institution purchase local food? |
How often
does your institution serve local food? |
How does
your institution locate/purchase local foods? |
What
broadline distributors does your institute purchase from? |
Please
describe any educational components of your program such as on-site gardens,
workshops, informative publications, etc. |
What
resources have been most helpful for your institution in locating and
purchasing local foods? |
Montana
State Prison |
Deerlodge |
The MCE
Food Factory is a central kitchen we use a Cook-Chill process to produce food
for inventory and from that inventory we supply 8 instituton or approximately
12000 meals per production day with nutritionally balanced fresh meals. When
ever possible we puchase food items from local vendors. |
Joe Mihelic |
jmihelic@mt.gov |
(406)
846-1320 ext.2120 |
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always |
More than
2,500 |
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Keep
producing nutritionally balanced safe cost effective foods to our
institutions. And to expaned in the future, help other institutions to reduce
food costs |
*MCE
produces its own dairy products (milk, yogurt, ice cream, etc.) and purchases
miscellaneous local items |
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it varies
depending on quarterly bids |
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Once every
2-3 months |
Daily |
Broadline
Distributor |
Sysco, FSA,
US Foods, and many others |
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Work
colleagues, quarterly bids process |
Montana Womens Prison |
Billings |
I make an effort to buy as much locally grown/processed food as
I can. |
Bill Peterson |
bipeterson@mt.gov |
406-247-5126 |
Staff, Farmers or Ranchers |
2007 |
500-1,000 |
194 |
Continue to buy locally and to get the greenhouse up and running. |
Bread,eggs,produce,milk,cereal,beans,meat |
Grains of Montana, Wheat Montana,Yellowstone Bean
Company,Negaards Produce, Springwater Colony,Stampede Packing, Cream of the
West, Montana Ranch Brands, Great American Bagel, MCE Ranch Dairy |
60000 |
30% |
Once a week |
Daily |
Directly from producer, broadline distributor |
Sysco, FSA, Spokane Produce, LTW |
Greenhouse (in process), Master Gardener Program classes |
Local cooperative, online searches of local producers |
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