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2018 Vermont Integrated Food, Farm, and Nutrition Programming Data Harvest
A study measuring the degree to which Vermont schools are engaging in food, farm, and nutrition activities like local purchasing, hands on learning, and community-school partnerships around integrated food, farm, and nutrition topics! -
A Guide for Dairy Farm Summer Camp: Connecting Cows, Children & Community in Vermont
This guide was developed for dairy farmers that are interested in starting or expanding summer camps, as well as for technical assistance providers that support dairy farms. -
A Guide to Using "The Creative Curriculum" for Infants, Toddlers and Twos to Support Farm to ECE
Helps teachers plan experiences that promote learning through play, exploration, and discovery—a natural fit for farm-to-ECE learning. -
A Guide to Using "The Creative Curriculum" for Preschool to Support Farm to ECE
Explores how teachers can use The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool and The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool as a foundation to embed farm to ECE learning opportunities into their existing practices. -
Agricultural Literacy: Farm & Food Education in Vermont & Beyond
Released in 2023, this report from Vermont Farm to Plate was developed to better understand research into agricultural literacy among the general public and school-aged children in the U.S. and Vermont.Read the report
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CACFP Participation & Community Data Mapping Tool
A tool that maps Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) participation in Vermont. -
Celebrating Our Roots Toolkit
Created by educators at Champlain Elementary (VT) for grades 3-6, offering 21 lessons for helping students explore identity, culture, and belonging through food.Download on the Shelburne Farms website
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Child Nutrition Recipe Box: Recipes which Meet CACFP Regulations
Your resource for USDA Standardized Recipes for Child Nutrition Programs.View on Institute of Child Nutrition Website
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Climate & Food Justice: 2022 Network Educator Webinar Recording
How can we support youth to explore the interconnectedness of these two global issues and take local, collective action to address both climate and food justice? -
Cooking Through the Seasons With Early Learners
Lesson plans, recipes, and information about implementing farm-to-preschool programming from Green Mountain Farm-to-School. -
COVID-19 Responsive Tips & Recommendations for Cooking with Students
COVID-related suggestions to continue cooking with your students while remaining safe. -
Cultivating Joy and Wonder
Brings Education for Sustainability into your early childhood classroom through engaging activities, essays, and resources that encourage children to explore and engage in the world around them.View on Shelburne Farms Website
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Current Dairy Education Activities in Vermont for Middle and High School Age
Middle and high school age dairy education activities currently being offered in Vermont. -
Economic Contribution of Vermont Farm to School Report
A 2015 study measuring the economic contribution and impacts of farm to school in Vermont. -
Farm to Early Care and Education Self-Assessment
Assess and document your ECE’s current farm to ECE activities and identify goals for the future. -
Farm to Early Childhood Activities: Butter Making & Compound Butters
Watch how to dive into butter making with your early learners! Discover the physical phases and properties cream goes through to become butter and sing while you work. -
Farm to Early Childhood Activities: Dress Up a Plant & Quick Pickles
We’re sharing an interactive game to teach young learners about a plant’s parts, what function each plays, and how a bean goes from seed to fruit. -
Farm to Early Childhood Activities: Making Flatbread & Herb Spread
Whether you're indoors in a kitchen or in an outdoor classroom with a fire pit, you can make bread from scratch with kids of any age. -
Farm to ECE & Benefits of Outdoor Play: Keeping Bodies and Minds Healthy and Resilient
This Association of State Public Health Nutritionists webinar explores the resilience and mental health value of farm to early childhood for children and providers. -
Farm to School and Universal Meals in Vermont: A Case Study of Act 151
As part of the 2022–23 Who’s At the Table? School Meals Campaign, the National Farm to School Network released spotlights of states that have successfully implemented universal meals. -
Food Justice, Part 1 & Part 2: 2021 Network Educator Webinar Recording
Explore the concepts of food justice and emergent issues within a community-based food system, as well as opportunities to affect change locally -
Grow It, Try It, Like It! Fun with Fruits and Vegetables at Family Child Care
Helps child and adult care food program operators provide garden-based nutrition education for children ages 3–5 years old in family child care settings.View on USDA Website
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Growing Minds: Farm to Preschool Toolkit
Farm to preschool resources, including lesson plans, activity guides, parent handouts, local food sourcing guidance, and tips for cooking and gardening with young children.View on Growing Minds Website
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Guide for Connecting Farms to Schools & Communities
A guide designed for farmers, teachers, and others interested in using farms for education. Includes strategies for marketing local food to schools and farm-based, educational activities.View on Vermont FEED website
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Guide to Taste Testing Local Foods in Schools
A guide is designed to help school nutrition staff, teachers, and farm to school coordinators develop a successful taste test program.View on Vermont FEED website
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Harvest of the Month Taste Test Toolkit
A Food Connects resource to inspire and guide schools in creating successful taste test programs that introduce students to fresh, locally sourced foods. -
Healthy Bites: a Wisconsin guide for improving child nutrition
Helps ECE professionals address childhood obesity by improving physical activity and nutrition. -
How Do We Feed Vermont's School Children?
An insider's guide to Vermont school meals and how farm to school programs can improve them. -
Hunger Free Vermont's Child Nutrition Hub
Learn how to improve your Vermont school meal program and feed more kids healthy meals.Visit the Hub on Hunger Free Vermont's website
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Leveraging Federal & State Funding for Innovations in Farm to Early Childhood
How can early educators make the best use of federal and state funding? Watch a webinar from Association of State Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN) to explore current approaches from early educators and policy specialists. -
Middle School Cooking Club Toolkit
Tips for engage middle school students, cooking lessons, guidance for partnering with community meal sites, recipes, and ideas for incorporating gleaning field trips. -
National Farm to School Network Webinar: The Common Thread in Successful Universal Meals Campaigns
Hear from advocates from Vermont, Maine, and California that have successfully passed universal meals. One important finding: the interdependence between farm to school initiatives, values-based purchasing, and successful universal meals campaigns. -
New England Dairy Innovation Kit
Students take a closer look at dairy foods and dairy farming in New England, the role dairy plays in a healthy diet, and engage in solution-oriented conversations to generate innovative ideas to address a specific challenge.View on New England Dairy Website
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New Hampshire Indigenous Harvest Calendar
An educational project by NH Farm to School in collaboration with the NH Indigenous Collaborative Collective and the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People.View on NH Farm to School Website
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New School Cuisine Cookbook
Nutritious and seasonal recipes for school cooks by school cooks.View on Vermont FEED Website
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NOFA-VT's Vermont Farm & Food Guide
Connections to local farms and farmers markets.View on NOFA–VT Website
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Providing Meals in Early Childhood Settings: 2022 Early Childhood Nutrition Report
Hunger Free Vermont and partners conducted a Providing Meals in Early Childhood Study to investigate how early childhood programs offer nutrition services across Vermont.Read the Study
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Raising Chickens and Bees in School Gardens
Compilation of resources if you are interested in raising poultry or bees in your school garden or creating pollinator habitats.View on Oregon Dept of Education Website
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Reach for the Stars with Farm to Preschool: Aligning Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS) with Farm to Preschool
A resource to help child care centers and family child care homes integrate farm to preschool activities into their curriculum while addressing the ECERS-R and ITERS-R. -
Recipes for Healthy Kids
A USDA cookbook collection for cooking at home and in child care.View on the USDA Website
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School Food 101: 2021 Network Educator Webinar Recording
Gain a better understanding of how school nutrition programs operate and how cafeterias can be better integrated with the school day. -
Student Engagement & Youth Voice: 2021 Network Educator Webinar Recording
Learn about how to engage students as decision-makers has increased participation and shifted learning to a student centered model. -
The Nuts & Bolts of Farm to School: 2021 Network Educator Webinar Recording
This introductory session will dig into hands-on examples of programming you can use right away and is connected to your learning goals. -
The Preschool Initiative: Building a Healthy Foundation for Life
Covers a lot of farm to preschool concepts, including ideas for teaching nutrition and physical activity. -
Tips for Buying & Serving Local Beef in Vermont Schools
Find tips for procuring and using Vermont local beef in school meal programs. -
Trauma Informed Practices: 2021 Network Educator Webinar Recording
Explore how food and trauma are intertwined. -
Vermont Farm to Early Childhood Local Purchasing Guide
Discover ways to integrate local foods into your Vermont early childhood program! A practical guide to getting started, logistics, pricing, and defining your program's values. -
Vermont Farm to School Case Study: Bellows Free Academy Fairfax
A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Bellows Free Academy (BFA) Fairfax, a K-12 school in Fairfax, VT. -
Vermont Farm to School Case Study: Bennington County Head Start
A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Bennington County Head Start in Bennington, VT. -
Vermont Farm to School Case Study: Hardwick Elementary School
A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Hardwick Elementary School in Hardwick, VT. -
Vermont Farm to School Case Study: Milton High School
A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Milton High School in Milton, VT. -
Vermont Farm to School Case Study: Putney Central School
A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Putney Central School in Putney, VT. -
Vermont FEED's Farm to School Planning Toolkit
Find all the resources and tools that relate to our Farm to School Planning Toolkit, which in centered on the action planning process of the Northeast Farm to School Institute.View on Vermont FEED's website
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Vermont FEED’s Grant Resource List
Places to get funding for your farm to school project or program.View on Vermont FEED Website
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Vermont Harvest of the Month
A Farm to School campaign that provides ready to go materials for the classroom, cafeteria, and community that promotes the use of local, seasonal Vermont foods.View Vermont Harvest of the Month Website
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Vermont Q&A: State-level Grants to Food Hubs Deliver Local Food for Schools
The National Farm to School Network gathered Vermont food systems specialists to share our state’s unique approach to implementing the USDA Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement. -
Vermont Schools & Early Childhood Centers Local Food Purchasing Evaluation 2024
A Network evaluation of how K–12 schools and early childhood programs across Vermont are purchasing and serving local food. -
Who Farms?
The Who Farms? Project (including videos, comics, and a teacher's guide) presents stories from culturally diverse Vermont farmers, told through comics and short videos created with middle-grade students in mind.