Food Connects

Farm to School Program

Food Connects’ Farm to School program supports educators, food service directors, farmers, and community members in cultivating healthy farm and food connections in classrooms, cafeterias, and communities across Southern Vermont. Sixty-thousand children in Vermont eat school food five days-a-week, getting more than half their calories from school lunch, school breakfast, and school snack. What we feed our kids in schools and what we teach them about food matters. It affects how they grow, how they learn, what they will feed their own families, and how long they will live. School is where it all begins.

Farm to School programs seek to address this need through three types of activities:

Educating kids about healthy food
Hands-on engagement with fruits and vegetables in school gardens and kitchens
Access to healthy food from local farms in school cafeterias