Action Alert: Contact Your Senator to Let them Know You Support Farm to School Funding in the FY20 Budget

We hope you will take a few minutes of your time today to contact your Senator, by phone or by email, to ask them to support farm to school funding. As some of you may know, Mass. Farm to School has historically received approximately 30% of its operating budget from the Mass. Department of Agricultural Resources, and we need your help to sustain this funding.  These funds enable us to provide training and support to Massachusetts farmers, food service professionals, educators and advocates to increase local food purchasing and education at schools.

It’s easy to make your voice heard!

Contact your Senator by email or phone (or both!) today and ask them to co-sponsor Senator Gobi’s amendment #934 to maintain level funding of $120,000 for Massachusetts Farm to School within the Department of Agricultural Resources (Line Item 2511-0100). Download a fact sheet here.

To send an email: 

We’ve drafted the email – just click here to customize and send to your senator (our link includes a simple search to find your senator). We encourage you to personalize the email including why farm to school programs are important to you.

To call: 

Click here to find your Senator & their contact information.

What do I say on the call? 

“Hello, I’m a constituent from [your town] and I am calling today to ask you to co-sponsor Senator Gobi’s amendment #934 to maintain level funding of $120,000 for Massachusetts Farm to School within the Department of Agricultural Resources (Line Item 2511-0100). This funding will help Mass. Farm to School increase access to healthy, locally grown foods for all students in Massachusetts and support new markets for our farmers.”

We encourage you to also share a personal message about why farm to school programs are important to you.

Thanks for your help sustaining farm to school programs across the Commonwealth.