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Recipe: Sweet Potato Hummus
February 12, 2024
Student engagement is always high with farm to school,” shares Charleston Elementary School Principal Christopher Lawson. “Kids are doing taste tests, planting in the greenhouse, cooking...
Adapting the Model: Connecticut’s Statewide Farm to School Institute
December 18, 2023
Our Farm to School Institute Adaptation Program supports farm to school leaders in their efforts to adapt, develop, and launch their own Institute programs. Since 2015, Shelburne Farms Institute...
Fall Farm to School Webinar Series: Now Available to Watch
November 22, 2023
This fall, we collaborated with food systems experts, educators, and school nutrition professionals across the country to create a webinar series for you — our farm to school and early...
Barre School Celebrates Local Food & Community Connections During Farm to School Month
November 7, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, Barre — Students, school and district staff, Congressional delegation staff, Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets Anson Tebbetts, and the Vermont Farm to...
Vermont Flood Recovery Resources
August 9, 2023
"I feel like there's a lot of pressure on Gen Z to [be] the change, 'You're the generation that's gonna do everything!’ We didn't ask for that. [ F.E.A.S.T.] was a...
Recipe: Confetti Corn Salad
August 4, 2023
Meals are central to the Northeast Farm to School Institute. Thank you to Chef Jim McCarthy and the team at The Mill Market for making healthy, delicious food to energize the teams. Photo by...
Spring & Early Summer Recap: Our Programs for Strengthening Food Systems Education
July 6, 2023
Making pesto with bike-powered food processors, dreaming up onsite programming with Vermont farmers at a picnic table, standing inside a student-built greenhouse on a high school campus — our...
Connecting Students to Vermont's Dairy Farms
June 12, 2023
Cambridge Elementary third graders bounded off the school bus, their pom-pom topped winter hats bobbing, as they circled up in front of the dairy barns. It had snowed the mid-May morning of their...
Supporting Climate & Food Justice
January 24, 2023
Climate justice and food justice intersect in so many arenas. Food is tied to energy, the economy, land, water, waste, and so many global topics. Climate is inherently interdisciplinary, affecting...
Weaving Farm to School into Existing Curricula & Initiatives
January 24, 2023
This fall, we worked with Dummerston School educators to collaboratively solve a common challenge: “how do we fit farm to school into our already full curriculum?”
The good news is...