Sessions

Wednesday, March 18th

Session 1 

• Advocacy and Action to Incorporate Food Education Systemically In Your School District 

• Building Capacity: Structuring Resilient Farm to School Programs at the SFA and State Level 

• Composting in School Cafeterias 

• Don’t Flounder! Local Fish is Fin-tastic! 

• Food Systems Across the Curriculum 

• Gathering Up: A Strategy for Family and Community Engagement 

• Growing Healthy Young Learners: Bringing Nutrition and Gardening to Classrooms and Cafeterias 

• The Joy of Cooking with Kids 

• Raising Garden Funds with Math, Science & ELA Aligned Student Run Plant Sales 

• Youth Change Makers: Student-Led Food & Environment Civic Engagement

Session 2

• Crafting Your Farm to School Story: Strategies to Secure Grant Funding

• Earthkeepers and Changemakers: How Local Indigenous Knowledge Shapes Middle School Programming on Cape Cod 

• Energize your Passion, Purpose, & Partnerships 

• Facilitating Engaging, Effective, and Joyful Taste Test Programming 

• From Dock to Tray: Empowering School Chefs to Cook with Local Fish 

• Nourishing Narratives: Marketing Farm to School for Equity, Excitement & Engagement 

• Queer Land Joy: Engaging with Land Systems for Everyone! 

• Sowing the Seeds of Early Literacy 

• Student Civic Engagement in the Food System

Session 3

• Best Practices for Schoolyard Gardens

• Building Connections: How Can We Strengthen our Collective Voice to Impact State Policy?

• Farm to School Starts Early: Real-World Models from MA FRESH Early Education Grantees

• From Roots to Recipes: Exploring Different Strategies for Local Food in School Meals

To read session descriptions, please visit the Conference Event Schedule.