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Harvest of the Month (HOM) is a nationwide marketing campaign that promotes the use of seasonally available, local products in schools. The program is available to Maine Schools who participate in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and CACFP sites.

Learn about the benefits and strategies of sourcing local seafood in your cafeteria

Learn more about how to source local seafood in school meals with this 15 minute video about “Sea to School”. The Sea to School Guide and accompanying 15-minute video support use of local seafood in school meals and marine education and will help schools procure, serve, and promote sustainably harvested Gulf of Maine seafood products.

Hear from a panel of experts who have successfully implemented school composting initiatives. This session is hosted by the Climate and Food Systems Working Group

The Food Fuels Learning Toolkit is a resource to help food security champions better understand their school food system, and to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in food security programming.

These resources to support forward contracting were developed for School Nutrition Directors by the 2019–2020 Innovation Grantees, Falmouth Schools, in partnership with the Department of Education’s Child Nutrition program, consultant Ron Adams, and others

This handbook describes how food waste is shaped by the school environment and provides specific actions schools can take to reduce food waste. This is the first comprehensive guide for Maine schools that identifies the serious problems with wasting food and offers solutions, explaining step-by-step how to take action, how to work as a successful team, and how to involve others in the school.

The Local Food Switchboard is a food supply chain coordination platform that helps people across Maine’s food system work together to buy and sell local food more easily.