AUSTIN, Texas, May 10, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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ScratchWorks, a collaborative to help school food professionals create a community to increase scratch cooking, held its first annual gathering in Austin, Texas, for more than 100 school district food service leaders from around the country.  

The three-day event opened with remarks from founding member Nancy Easton, Executive Director of Wellness in the Schools, who stated, “We are not an organization, we are a collaborative; and this is not a conference, it is a gathering. There are no vendors here to sell you anything, only a space to connect and learn from each other.”

ScratchWorks was conceived during the summer of 2019 when a group of nonprofits and school food service operators came together to consider what could be done to accelerate change in school food. ScratchWorks was born, a collective of school food professionals and non-profit…