Farm to School Northeast is a monthly podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeastern states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Tapping Into Learning: Maple Sugaring with K-12 Students in New Hampshire
Hear from two teachers in New Hampshire who bring the tradition and science of maple sugaring into the classroom. They discuss how tapping trees and making maple syrup creates meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities while connecting students to local agriculture, the environment, and their community. Tune in to hear why maple sugaring is more than a seasonal activity—it’s a powerful way to engage students in authentic, interdisciplinary learning.
9 Jun 2026
Maine Sea to School: From Fish Auction to Lunch Plate
How does seafood get from the water to the school lunch plate? This was the topic of the Maine's Local Food Processing Workgroup "Behind the Supply Chain" webinar series sponsored by the Maine Farm & Sea to Institution Network, the Maine Food Convergence Project, and the Department of Ag Conservation & Forestry. Hear from: Mary Hudson, Director of Fisheries Programs and Maine Coast Community Sector Manager of the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association, Shawn McEwen, CEO and co-founder o...
6 May 2026
Indigenous Partnerships and Contributions to Farm to School
In this episode we talk with Brad Lopes, education and Public Program Manager at the Aquinnah Cultural Center and the Education Manager of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gayhead Aquinnah and Emily Armstrong, Education Director of Island Grown Initiative. Brad and Emily speak about the collaboration between Island Grown and the Aquinnah Cultural Center to promote tribal food sovereignty through the lens of curricular instruction and some best practices for engaging in local food sustainability and foo...
25 Mar 2026
Stories From The Field
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast: A Podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. On March 18, Massachusetts Farm to School held their biennial MA Farm and Sea to School Conference at Smith College in Northampton, MA. Over 350 attendees joined in from all areas of the farm and sea to school movement. There were educators, farmers and fishers, po...
5 Feb 2026
Feast Box: From Farmer to School
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Meghan Arquin is a Western Massachusetts farmer who works with Farm Lab and runs the Feast Box program. Farm Lab is part of Momentum Ag, a grant-funded nonprofit coordinating environmentally conscious agriculture across 20 Northeast farms. Feast Box provides free w...
5 Jan 2026
Early Childhood Nutrition at Vermont's Mountain Village School
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. In this episode we talk about early childhood education and its connection to farm to school and childhood nutrition with Sarah Tousignant, the Executive Director of the Mountain Village School in Stowe, Vermont. The Mountain Village School is a nature-based indepe...
2 Dec 2025
Early Childhood Farm to School: The Power and Curiosity of Our Youngest Learners
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today our focus is on early childhood education and its connection to farm to school and childhood nutrition. Hear from Maggie Lynch, RDN, Director of Nutrition Services, Karley Besozzi, Director of Nutrition Education, and Lindsey Bogot, Farm to School and Food Ac...
3 Nov 2025
Trout Tales: A Grade 4 Project from Sustainability Academy in Burlington, VT
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have the chance to have all of our burning questions about trout answered by grade four students as we listen to their podcast called “Trout Tales”. But before that, we will get some background from educator Julia Marchessault, fourth grade teacher at Sust...
8 Oct 2025
The Power of Garden Based Learning
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have a chance to talk with Jen Reese, Science and Garden Coordinator with Amherst and Pelham Public Schools and garden educator Leila Tunnell, who co-lead the Amherst Elementary School Garden Program in Amherst, Massachusetts. The program believes in the p...
11 Sept 2025
The Food Project: Dirt Crew Takes the Mic
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. To start off season 2 we gave the microphone to a group of youth leaders at the Food Project. The Food Project is a Boston-area nonprofit that builds a sustainable food system by bringing together diverse youth and adults to work on farms in urban and suburban sett...
2 Jun 2025
The Importance of Farm to School, Buying Local and a Shipping Container Farm in Groton, CT
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Ernie Koschmieder, the Food Service Director for Groton Public Schools in Groton, Connecticut to talk about the positive impacts of farm to school on students and families, and we're going to learn about an exciting shi...
30 Apr 2025
Talking About Books and Food Systems with Author Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Publisher Philip Lee
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with publisher Philip Lee of Readers to Eaters and author Jacqueline Briggs Martin who wrote Eva's Green Garden Life to discuss food and food systems, books and stories.
31 Mar 2025
Zane Tickoo: Youth Activism and The Power of the Plate
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast: A Podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Connecticut high school student and food system activist Zane Tickoo to talk about his work and dedication to improve the local food system and support access to healthy food, local economy, and social justice through w...
3 Mar 2025
Buzz, Flow and Grow: Exploring STEAM with Bees, Fish and Gardens
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Brian Winslow, a K-4 STEAM teacher from the Southwick School in Northfield, New Hampshire, to talk about their dynamic program that includes a greenhouse, aquaponics, an apiary, pollinator gardens and schoolwide compost...
4 Feb 2025
Maine's Scratch Cooking Champions
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Denise Tapley Proctor, the Food Service Director for RSU 89 in Stacyville, Maine, to talk about the positive impacts of their farm to school program on students and families and their award-winning scratch cooking, whic...
2 Jan 2025
Montpelier High School: Building Community Through Cooking and Eating Local
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with French teacher Brigitte Savard and high school senior Veda Gahagan from Montpelier High School to talk about ways they embed food system education into the curriculum. From “Solon Soup for the Soul” named after the scho...
2 Dec 2024
Middle Schoolers Create a Student Driven Farm
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Sara Churgin, District Manager of the Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District, and Margie Brennan, the K-8 Science Coach for Portsmouth School Department to learn about the Portsmouth Ag Innovation Farm, a student-...
5 Nov 2024
Say Something Kind To A Seed: Social Emotional Learning In The School Garden
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast: A Podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. In this episode, School Garden Coordinator Fatima Seck shares her vision for school gardens as places to allow all students to flourish. From building positive habits and investment, finding safety and emotional regulation, to practicing gratitude, exploring creati...
7 Oct 2024
What Do We Mean When We Say Farm To School?
Welcome to Farm to School Northeast: A Podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. While Farm to School programs exist across the country and throughout the northeast, for some the phrase, “farm to school,” might not be familiar, and for others a definition might be a little hard to pin down. We asked a variety of people who work in farm to schoo...
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