Ag Diversification and Market Development Bureau
“Wrap Your Own-Iowa Grown” Initiative

This is your chance to wrap up something great from our state! “Wrap Your Own-Iowa Grown” is a new initiative of the Iowa Farm to School Program that will start this fall. This initiative is a great opportunity for schools, students, teachers, parents, and the communities to get involved and promote Iowa producers and the Iowa economy, not to mention to encourage healthy eating habits for our children and our future. The goal of this initiative is to promote the purchase of locally-grown vegetables and products to create Iowa grown wraps. This is also an opportunity for students to eat something healthy with great Iowa fixins!

Food Service Directors/Teachers/Staff:
How can you participate, you ask? Get involved by having your Food Service Director volunteer to participate by filling out a form on the website. By participating in this Initiative your school will have the opportunity to:

* Receive “Wrap Your Own-Iowa Grown” wrap paper and stickers
* Receive a list of growers/producers/processors that have Iowa products
* Receive nutritional information
* Receive $200 to assist with the purchase of locally grown vegetables and to help implement this initiative
* Receive recipes for different kinds of wraps
* Provide your students with a healthy lunch option = happy parents, teachers, and students and a potential decrease in childhood obesity
* Promote your students/school to get involved in the “Now That’s a (W)rap” contest
* Recognition on the IDALS website
* Participation Form

Students 6th-12th Grades
If you are a student, there is a great opportunity to promote healthy eating and Iowa to your schools, not to mention win cool T-shirts and other promotional items for you and your school by participating in our “Now That’s a (W)rap” contest. Get your friends together and create a rap!

For more information regarding the Wrap Your Own- Iowa Grown Initiative contact Tammy Stotts by phone, 515-281-7657 or by email: tammy.stotts@iowaagriculture.gov or Emily Wadle by phone 515-725-2078 or by email: emily.wadle@iowaagriculture.gov. Visit the website at:

Wrap Your Own – Iowa Grown Website