Explore our Farm & Sea to School Toolkits
Find How To’s, lessons, templates and more to help support your Farm to School work.
Farm to Early Childhood Education
Kids exposure to cooking, gardening, and tasting healthy food creates a foundation for children to build healthy habits into adulthood.
Farm to early care and education (farm to ECE) offers increased access to life-long health and wellness for children, families, and caregivers. Check out the volume of resources they have gathered to help our kids stay healthy!
Equity in Farm to School Resources
This resource packet was created by the MFSN Equity committee to support the participating Maine Farm & Sea to School Institute school teams on embedding racial and social equity into their farm & sea to school action plans.
Do’s and Don’ts of Food & Garden Education
Modeled after Portland Public Schools Wabanaki Studies Dos and Don'ts, 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.
Forward Contract Purchasing Templates
These resources were created for School Nutrition Directors, created by 2019-2020 Innovation Grantees Falmouth Schools in partnership with Dept of Education Child Nutrition, Consultant Ron Adams, and more.
Local Procurement Resources
These resources were created from MFSN, VT FEED, and USDA 2019 Farm to School Training Grant virtual workshop.
School Food Security Assessment Toolkit
Created by Cumberland County Food Security Council’s Food Fuels Learning Project.
Agriculture Lessons for 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. Funding was supplied through the USDA – SPECA grant program.
Toolkits for School Gardens
Starting and Maintaining a School Garden
Making School Gardens Accessible
Funding your School Garden
Starting a Preschool Garden
Resources from our Partners
Resources for Organizing & Advocacy
Farm to School Policy Opportunities
Racial & Social Equity Assessment Tool for Programs & Policy
Organics in Farm to School
Sea to School Guide
K-12 school systems are incorporating locally caught seafood into their meals for a variety of reasons and through a variety of procurement models. This guide explores why schools might choose to source local seafood, the different methods for purchasing local seafood, and innovative strategies for promoting local seafood to students. We hope lessons from some of the schools at the forefront of the sea to school movement in New England will inspire greater use of local seafood by schools throughout our region and beyond.
School Food Recovery Handbook
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. By referring to NRCM’s School Food Recovery Hierarchy Framework, and using our “How-to” guides, you’ll be well on your way to reducing food waste in your school.
