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We had an amazing group of projects that were supported this year through our mini-grant program. Read below to see…

Ten Upper Valley schools and day care facilities have been awarded $500 mini-grants to support farm-to-school projects this year!  These…

I hope this note finds you all healthy and adjusting to the routines of remote learning and teaching. I know my family…

Join Upper Valley Farm to School and Vermont FEED for Integrating Farm to School into the Classroom with Common Core…

Since receiving a farm-to-school mini- grant we identified areas around the school for perennials and vegetable plants for our pollinator garden and edible landscape projects. We…

Here in Newbury we’re getting underway with our implementation grant by taking a close look at the costs of running our salad…

Our latest Partner Up included planting seeds and creating a mini book “How a Seed Grows” to celebrate Health and Wellness week at the school. During…

Unity students, staff, parents, and community members will be working together to construct a butterfly/herb garden this spring. The first step in…

On Friday, April 3rd, the Tunbridge middle school students visited the Bogardus Family sugar house, spending the morning helping gather buckets of sap, and the afternoon participating…

Marion Cross students are tapping, tasting, and boiling! We are learning how to identify maples and how the tree makes the sweetness it is sharing…

Woodstock Union High School and Middle School Farm to School program is sliding sweetly into spring. The Locally Grown class has been sugaring at the…

Adams Family Farm Alice’s Kitchen Angry Goat Pepper Co. Ariana’s Restaurant B&W Catering Big Fatty’s BBQ Blue Ox Farm Cedar…

Teaching from the Garden: Using Gardens to Enhance Student Learning Did you know that a shovel is not just a gardening…

With cold temperatures and plenty of snow outside, I think we’ve all been longing for some greenery – and that is what…

We completed our planning grant in December.The grant allowed us to pursue our dream of creating a sustainable salad bar program…

Sharon has been busy tasting new foods. The kindergarten class made, Confetti Soup for our most recent taste test. It is a turkey based…

February Farm-To-School Educational Forum: Let the Good Times Roll! Join Upper Valley Farm to School as we “rise” to the…

We joyously welcome the Upper Valley Farm to School Network to Vital Communities. UVFTS has joined our Valley Food &…

  Move over, wrapping paper and candy bars: Here comes FarmRaiser. Vital Communities is currently seeking schools to participate in…

Some of the best Farm to School activities emerge naturally from a teacher’s own creativity. While studying the Industrial Revolution,…

All four schools in the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union are keeping busy this winterwith farm to school. Some of the schools…

December was a busy month for taste tests at Sharon! The fourth graders started us off with awonderful Tuscan Smoked Turkey…

In recent years, Marion Cross sixth graders read the inspiring little book, “Seedfolks.” Thisbook is a story of the creation of a…

The Harvest Lessons Program on Whole Grains was led by Woodstock High School students that are taking the course, Locally Grown. The students…

As our Farm-to-School Planning Grant winds down here at Newbury Elementary School, one of our culminating initiatives was to host a Farm-to-School…

Barnard Feast and Field Market willhost a holiday market and fundraiserfor Barnard’s Farm-to-School Program December 18 at the Barnard Town Hall from 4:30-7:30…

Randolph Elementary hosted a Harvest Festival in October to help fund local foods for our cafeteria. Art students made chili bowls to…

In addition to the normal late fall activities of taste-testing blue Hubbard squash and putting gardens to bed, we have also…

Marion Cross Elementary students in Norwich dedicated their fall harvest to soup ingredients for the “Giving Bowls” fundraising event that was held in…

Hanover Street School held its annual Open House in October. The after-school Garden Club saw it as an opportunity to showcase their efforts.…

The cool weather is starting to settle in and for the most part, the Sharon gardens are put to bed, except…

Fall gardens are being put to bed. The carrots that our 1/2 class grew last year are BIG and ready to harvest for…

Friday, October 10, sixth graders Josh Ducharme and Hunter Davenport  loaded up the wheelbarrow with fresh carrots and potatoes from the…

Woodstock’s Farm to School program had great success running a pie-raffle during parent-teacher conferences this year! Tons of faculty members offered their time…

TCS grades 3 and 4 helped dig an enormous pile of potatoes at Chapman Family Farm in early October. A portion of…

All the schools in the Windsor South East Supervisory Union are busy! In Hartland the kitchen continues the tradition of offering taste tests twice…

“One of Chelsea’s goals for our farm-to-school program was to build a wood fired oven. Despite not receiving a grant to support the project,…

“Our new HSS garden has been very active this past month. During mini garden tours for all our classrooms the second week…

“The Taste of Tunbridge community potluck dinner featuring local foods highlights the beginning of October for Tunbridge Central School. Each grade cooked and contributed dishes…

“All our students have been busy with farm-to-school activities. The K’s visited Wellwood Orchard to learn about apples and are now drying…

“All of the students and staff in grades K-5 enjoyed the beautiful weather as Mr. Woodie read and portrayed a rendition…

I had the pleasure of visiting Marjie Bish and her group of dedicated volunteers in their school garden at Hanover Street School in Lebanon, NH. This…

“Here in Newbury we’ve had a successful growing summer. We procured a small grant to pay a staff member to tend the…

“Wow, what a summer it has been forgardening! As we start our new school year, the harvesting will begin. During…

“Thanks to a big load of manure donated by our neighbors, the Vermont Alpaca Company, our Abenaki flint corn is over 6’…

We joyously welcome the Upper Valley Farm to School Network to Vital Communities. UVFTS has joined our Valley Food &…

“The Windsor Central Supervisory Union is running anew program called Summer SOAK and a part of that is a gardening program…

“A team of five staff from The Newton School attended the Farm-to-School Institute in Shelburne for an inspiring 3 days of great…

“Local photographers have been busy this spring and summer capturing images of Tunbridge farmers to showcase in a farmer portrait project we plan…

“We made pizza with yellow peppers, basil, 2 cherry tomatoes, and some fresh grated zucchini. Last week we started picking Japanese beetles…