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For Educators
Education Impact
Farm to School
Place-Based Education

The Pickle Party: How One School Brings a Community Together

Each year before school starts, families in Schenectady, New York, gather in a school cafeteria to pack jars with garden-grown dill and local produce in celebration of their district-wide farm to school program.

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Paul Hawken Recap

A full recording of Paul Hawken's recent 2026 Marshall Webb Climate Action Talk, presented at the Coach Barn on September 1.

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From Farm to Flowers

Throughout the growing season, Market Garden staff cultivate beautiful flowers that Inn florists, Amy Raymond and Abby Todia fashion into floral magic to reflect and honor this working farm.

 

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Positive Pastures

When cows are managed so that their grazing mimics ancestral patterns, then plants, soils, and animals can flourish. The biome of pasture life below ground can help weather drought and floods, and hold carbon. 

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Falafel Nuggets & Sesame Dressing

These falafel nuggets can be piled over a salad, rolled into a wrap, or added to a veggie platter. Inspired by New School Cuisine, our cookbook for school nutrition professionals by school nutrition professionals.

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Describing a Sustainable Future

"Inspiring learning for a sustainable future" is the mission of Shelburne Farms. But what might this kind of future look like? Here's how one group of teachers sees it.

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Blueberry Coffee Cake is Camp Cuisine

After harvesting blueberries from our fields, summer campers recently made a Blueberry Buckle Coffee Cake, a popular recipe from King Arthur Flour, but baked over an open campfire!

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Why Sustainability Academy Shouts For Trout

Over the last five years, the Burlington school's study of brook trout has bloomed across each grade and far beyond, driven by students and dedicated staff. 

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Introducing Our New Collaborative Resource: "Celebrating Our Roots"

Created by educators at Champlain Elementary (VT) for grades 3-6, offering 21 lessons for helping students explore identity, culture, and belonging through food.

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Inside the Program Changing How Kids See Food

Every summer, educators, school nutrition staff, and community partners gather at Shelburne Farms to kick off a year-long journey reconnecting kids with where their food comes from.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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Shelburne Farms is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID #03-0229347)