El Dorado County
Buckeye Union Elementary
Buckeye Union Elementary has received $742,638 from the Kitchen Infrastructure and Training (KIT) Fund: $592,480 in 2022 and a $150,158 grant in 2025. The California Department of Education (CDE) has not published the 2026 allocations yet.
$592,480
2022 KIT allocation
$150,158
2025 KIT grant
KIT Fund allocations
What the KIT Fund has sent this district, round by round.
- 2022 allocation
- $592,480 in the 2022 round: $303,689 base plus $288,791 for freshly prepared meals. As of March 29, 2024.
- 2025 grant
- $150,158 in the 2025 round. As of March 11, 2026.
- 2026 allocation
- Not yet published by CDE. The formula and the amount per agency are still to be decided. As of September 29, 2026.
- County-District-School (CDS) code
- 09618380000000
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What the 2026 KIT Fund can pay for
Who qualifies, when the money arrives and what it can pay for.
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Who decides in a district
KIT money goes to the district's food service (nutrition services) department, so its director decides how it is spent. An education or curriculum lead, a farm-to-school buyer and a garden coordinator often shape a garden program, and in our work a garden coordinator housed in food services has worked well, since food service already runs as a business.
Gardens and garden education here
Ten Strands found public evidence of a school garden and a farm to school program here.
From Ten Strands' statewide district dataset, as of September 29, 2026. Ten Strands looks for public evidence, so a missing item may mean the district has not said so publicly.
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