Farm to school is described by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as including local and regional foods in school meals and providing complementary educational activities to students that emphasize food, farming, and nutrition. Similarly, the National Farm to School Network defines farm to school as a program that connects schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local and regional farmers. Farm to school programs have been occurring on a small scale in some form for decades; however, the concept first began to emerge in the 1990s from the work of two different individuals and programs. One of the first farm to school programs was an initiative started by a USDA consultant in Florida and was designed to support underserved minority farmers by establishing school districts as potential markets for certain crops. Additionally, another early farm to school program was an initiative launched by a school food service director at a low-income school in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in California. The Santa Monica-Malibu program focused on connecting a local farmers' market to school cafeterias through a fresh fruit and vegetable salad bar. Extension involvement in farm to school program activities that support local and regional food systems and provide opportunities for cross programmatic collaboration Due to a lack of research on the topic, an instrument measuring Extension professionals' involvement in farm to school was not available. Therefore, the researcher created an instrument. The instrument was composed of four sections, and reasoned action theory. Provided the conceptual framework for instrumentation. In one part, of the instrument, respondents were asked to select with which farm to school program activities they were currently involved and with which farm to school program activities they were interested in being involved. The targeted respondents included 1,953 Extension professionals employed by eight state Extension systems during the fall of 2012. Respondents included individuals employed by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Hawaii, Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, Ohio State University Extension, Penn State Extension, University of Tennessee Extension, and Washington State University Extension. These state Extension systems were selected as part of a convenient sample through email correspondence with each state Extension director. Each director agreed to help facilitate the administration of the instrument. The sample from six of the eight states included every Extension professional and Data collection was performed