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VT FTS Network data harvest resource

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!

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A Guide to Using The Creative Curriculum Infants Toddlers Twos to Support Farm-to-ECE Models

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.

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FarmtoECE_CreativeCurriculumGuide

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.

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report cover: Agricultural Literacy: Farm and Food Education in Vermont and Beyond

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.

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CACFP Participation in Vermont

CACFP Participation & Community Data Mapping Tool

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Child Nutrition Recipe Box

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
Climate and Food Justice Webinar Recording

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?

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Cooking Through the Season's With Early Learners

Offers lesson plans, recipes, and information about implementing farm-to-preschool programming at your early education center.

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COVID-19 Responsive Tips & Recommendations for Cooking with Students

COVID-19 Responsive Tips & Recommendations for Cooking with Students

COVID-related suggestions to continue cooking with your students while remaining safe.

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Cultivating Joy and Wonder

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
Current Dairy Education Activities in Vermont for Middle and High School Age

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.

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VAAFM Economic Report

Economic Contribution of Vermont Farm to School Report

A 2015 study measuring the economic contribution and impacts of farm to school in Vermont.

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Farm to Early Care and Education Self-Assessment

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.

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A child smiles as she shakes a jar of cream, turning it to butter.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Food Justice Webinar

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

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Grow It Try It Like It

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
Growing Minds Farm to Preschool Toolkit

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
Healthy Bites

Healthy Bites: a Wisconsin guide for improving child nutrition

Helps ECE professionals address childhood obesity by improving physical activity and nutrition.

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Healthy Eating Cookbooks Library

A variety of ethnic and regional healthy cuisines geared for children and families.

View on CA Dept of Public Health Website
How Do We Feed VT School Children

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.

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Hunger Free Vermont's School Meals Hub

Hunger Free Vermont's School Meals 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
National Farm to School Network Webinar: The Common Thread in Successful Universal Meals Campaigns

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.

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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
New Hampshire Indigenous Harvest Calendar

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
New School Cuisine

New School Cuisine Cookbook

Nutritious and seasonal recipes for school cooks by school cooks.

View on Vermont FEED Website
NOFA Organic Guide

NOFA-VT's Vermont Farm & Food Guide

Connections to local farms and farmers markets.

View on NOFA–VT Website

PennState Extension Better Kid Care

On demand training modules for nutrition, cooking with kids, family engagement.

View on Penn State Website

Pennsylvania Ready, Set, Grow: Multicultural book lists

Multicultural collection of farm to ECE children’s books that feature characters from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, many of which are authored by writers of color.

View on Ready Set Grow Website
Providing Meals in Early Childhood Settings: 2022 Early Childhood Nutrition Report

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.

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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
Reach for the Stars

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.

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Recipes for Healthy Kids

Recipes for Healthy Kids

A USDA cookbook collection for cooking at home and in child care.

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School Food 101

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.

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Student Engagement Youth Voice

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.

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Nuts & Bolts of Farm to School

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.

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The Preschool Initiative

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.

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Trauma Informed Practices

Trauma Informed Practices: 2021 Network Educator Webinar Recording

Explore how food and trauma are intertwined.

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Farm to Early Childhood Local Purchasing Guide Cover

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.

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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.

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Bennington Case Study Cover

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.

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Hardwick Case Study Cover

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.

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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.

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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.

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Vermont FEED's Farm to School Planning Toolkit

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
Harvest of the Month Vermont

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.

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Who Farms?

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.

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