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!

Helps teachers plan experiences that promote learning through play, exploration, and discovery—a natural fit for farm-to-ECE learning.

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.

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.

Your resource for USDA Standardized Recipes for Child Nutrition Programs.

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?

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

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

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.

Middle and high school age dairy education activities currently being offered in Vermont.

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

Assess and document your ECE’s current farm to ECE activities and identify goals for the future.

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.

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.

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.

This Association of State Public Health Nutritionists webinar explores the resilience and mental health value of farm to early childhood for children and providers.

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.

Explore the concepts of food justice and emergent issues within a community-based food system, as well as opportunities to affect change locally

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.

Farm to preschool resources, including lesson plans, activity guides, parent handouts, local food sourcing guidance, and tips for cooking and gardening with young children.

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

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

An insider's guide to Vermont school meals and how farm to school programs can improve them.

Learn how to improve your Vermont school meal program and feed more kids healthy meals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nutritious and seasonal recipes for school cooks by school cooks.

Connections to local farms and farmers markets.

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

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.

Hunger Free Vermont and partners conducted a Providing Meals in Early Childhood Study to investigate how early childhood programs offer nutrition services across Vermont.

Compilation of resources if you are interested in raising poultry or bees in your school garden or creating pollinator habitats.

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.

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

Gain a better understanding of how school nutrition programs operate and how cafeterias can be better integrated with the school day.

Learn about how to engage students as decision-makers has increased participation and shifted learning to a student centered model.

This introductory session will dig into hands-on examples of programming you can use right away and is connected to your learning goals.

Covers a lot of farm to preschool concepts, including ideas for teaching nutrition and physical activity.

Find tips for procuring and using Vermont local beef in school meal programs.

Explore how food and trauma are intertwined.

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.

A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Bellows Free Academy (BFA) Fairfax, a K-12 school in Fairfax, VT.

A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Bennington County Head Start in Bennington, VT.

A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Hardwick Elementary School in Hardwick, VT.

A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Milton High School in Milton, VT.

A 2018 case study of the farm to school programming at Putney Central School in Putney, VT.

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.

Places to get funding for your farm to school project or program.

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.

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.

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.