Originally recorded in 2021.

Join the Vermont Farm to School & Early Childhood Network to learn how to liven up your existing curriculum with a farm to school approach.

Farm to school offers a multifaceted lens that can be used to bridge classroom concepts and transferable skills to students’ lives. This introductory session will dig into hands-on examples of programming you can use right away and is connected to your learning goals. Together we’ll explore: cooking with students, using the garden as an outdoor classroom, nutrition education, taste testing, and connecting with local farms. Teachers will leave with new ideas and next steps to apply farm to school to their toolkit.

The webinar was led by Green Mountain Farm-to-School, Northwest Vermont Healthy Roots Collaborative, and Vital Communities.

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