Farm to School Month

Let’s Celebrate!

We encourage you to celebrate Farm to School month by sharing your Farm to School story, joining us at an event, advocating for Farm to School program funding with your legislators, recognizing the farm to school champions in your community, and much more.

There are so many different ways to celebrate the month. Whether you’re a teacher, a student, school nutrition staff, administrator, or a community partner, we have many ideas to get you started.

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Share Your Story!

Sharing your farm to school story will increase awareness within your community about your dedication to serving fresh, local foods and demonstrate the nutritional, educational, and economic benefits of this movement. The more people know about farm to school the more people will advocate for a strong and well-funded farm to school program in Massachusetts. To make it easy for you to tell your stories, we have developed a Farm to School Month toolkit which includes the following:

Farm to School Month Logos
Farm to School Month Social Media Graphic Templates
Social Media Text/Caption Templates
Messaging Tips

Whether you’re a farmer, teacher, food service professional, or community advocate – your voice matters, and your work inspires. This October, let’s celebrate together and keep growing the movement.

Access Farm to School Month Communications Tips & Templates

Take Action!

Join advocates across the state during Farm to School Month by meeting with legislators in October at the Statehouse, in district, or virtually. One of the most important things you can do to support Farm to School efforts is have a conversation with your legislators or their staff.

Make your voice heard this October and show your legislators why farm to school is as important as ever.

Email your legislator a farm to school story from your school, program, or district.
Have students from your school fill out a farm to school advocacy form and send the forms to your legislator’s office.
Meet with your Massachusetts legislators (View meeting tips.)
Make sure you’re signed up for the MA Food for MA Kids coalition (Learn more.)
Visit the Massachusetts Food for Massachusetts Kids website for more details on policy efforts surrounding farm to school.

Ways to Celebrate Farm to School Month

Join us in celebrating Farm to School Month throughout October. We’ve got a lot of great ideas for you. We’ve listed a few ideas below, but please click the link to read the full list.

Educators: Sign up for our Harvest of the Month for Educators program (elementary and/or secondary)
Students: Conduct a trash audit at your school to see how much waste there is and how you can reduce the waste. Learn more about what students did in Northampton to start a school-wide composting program at their school here.
School Nutrition Staff: Encourage students and staff to try a new, local healthy food by creating a taste test station and send us a photo or tag us in a social media post!
School Administrators: Start a Farm to School Committee at your school and create a plan to roll out Farm to School programming school-wide.
Community Members: Help your school librarian build a Farm to School section in the school library. Check out this book list.

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Help to Get Students Involved in Advocacy Work & Civic Engagement this October!

Are you an educator? Do you work with students in or out of a school setting? Help them advocate for Farm to School in their communities by encouraging them to fill out a Farm to School Student Advocacy Form! Send the forms back to us and we’ll deliver them to Massachusetts legislators from your community. Send forms to Mass. Farm to School, P.O. Box 213, Beverly, MA 01915 or scan and email dena@massfarmtoschool.org).

Let us know how you're celebrating Farm to School Month!

Share your experiences with us on social media. Use #F2SMonth & #FarmtoSchool and tag us in your social posts @MassFarmtoSchool (Facebook & Instagram).