Maine Agriculture Lessons For Grades PreK-12 

Teach ME About Food and Farms Lesson Site is a collection of lessons and resources for educators in Grades Pre-K – 12 that is accessible and searchable by topic, grade and Maine Learning Results and Common Core Standards.

Local Seafood in Maine Schools - GMRI Learning Module

Gulf of Maine Research Institute - This curriculum module, developed with support from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, focuses on the importance of seafood across communities and cultures and celebrates its environmental, economic and nutritional benefits.

Growing Minds: Farm to Preschool Toolkit

Farm to preschool resources, including lesson plans, activity guides, parent handouts, local food sourcing guidance, and tips for cooking and gardening with young children.

Do’s and Don’ts of Food & Garden Education

This resource was created by the MFSN Equity committee as general guidelines for implementing garden, food, nutrition, and land-based education through an equity, diversity, inclusion, poverty-informed, and trauma-informed lens.

Starting and Maintaining a School Garden

National Farm to School Network (2024) - This fact sheet offers steps and considerations for starting a school garden, including: collaboration, goals and design, funding, planting, maintaining, supplies, curriculum and benefits.

Creative Ways to Fund a School Garden 

National Farm to School Network (2016) - While there are grant opportunities that help kick start school gardens by providing initial funding for tools and infrastructure, how can programs continue to sustain themselves? One solution could be incorporating social enterprise into your school garden activities.

Composting in School (Webinar)

Maine Food Convergence (2025) - Composting in Schools Panel hosted by the Climate and Food Systems Working Group featuring

SNAP Ed and School Gardens Growing Together (Webinar) 

USDA (2019) - During this 1-hour webinar, you will learn: the benefit of gardening in SNAP-Ed programming/nutrition education, how to assess needs, create partnerships, and start a school garden, how to maintain a school garden and successfully integrate nutrition education, and examples of how to evaluate a school garden


Starting a Successful School Composting Operation

Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection (2022) - 10 Steps to Starting a School Composting Operation