Upcoming:

• Farm Early Care Resource Fair: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, 10:30-12:30, Wallingford Public Library
  • Join us to learn about food and nutrition activities, garden support, seedlings, and seeds, compost lessons and more!  For questions reach out to Shannon.Raider@uconn.edu 
  • Register to attend at this link

 

Past Trainings

For meeting recording and resources, reach out to abigail.dubois@uconn.edu

• Food Safety Plan with UConn Extension** December 12, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (for Farmers) [Virtual]
  • Develop your food safety plan and write a Standard Operating procedure. (SOP)
• Farm to School in the Classroom** December 19, 2024, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm [Virtual]
  • Join Abby DuBois and Emma Rotner to engage with resources to teach farm to school through nutrition, science, etc and meeting curriculum standards.
• Culinary Training and Knife Skills** February 13, 2025,  3:00 pm – 5:30 pm, East Hartford Public Schools
  • Join Chef Kashia Diaz to learn knife skills and culinary tools for scratch cooking local foods, gain knowledge to take back to your school food staff.
• Culturally Appropriate Culinary Training** April 3, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Middletown Public Schools
  • Join Brigaid to explore seasonal ingredients and discover ways to adapt recipes that reflect various culinary traditions.

• Programming in the Garden** April 22, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm, Cheshire Public Schools
  • Meet the Farm to School program in Cheshire, and experience a greenhouse to classroom process in action. SIGN UP HERE 

• Best practices for Farm to ECE** April 26, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, ACES Middletown (for Early Care Providers, Bilingual)
  •  Join guest trainer from All Our Kin for a seed to plate demonstration, take home seedlings for your garden!

• Building a Farm to School Program for the Future** May 19, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm [Virtual]
  • Join Sherlene Rodriguez to discover ways to increase the longevity of your program: developing a Vision Statement, creating an Action Plan, and building a Farm to School Team. SIGN UP HERE

*Funding for this project was paid for by the CT Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Funds and by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service through grant AM22SCBPCT1132. **Funding for this project was paid for by the CT Grown for CT Kids Grant program. All funding is awarded and administered by the CT Department of Agriculture.