2025 Trainings
- Culturally Appropriate Culinary Training** April 3, 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Middletown Public Schools
- Join Brigaid's to explore using seasonal ingredients to adapt recipes that reflect various culinary traditions. SIGN UP HERE
- Programming in the Garden** April 22, 11:00 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 TBD, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm [Virtual]
- Join Sherlene Rodriguez to discover ways to increase the longevity of your program: building a Farm to School Team, funding opportunities, resources etc.
Past Trainings
- Food Safety Plan with UConn Extension** December 12, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (for Farmers) [Virtual]
- Develop your food safety plan and write a Standard Operating procedure. (SOP)
- For meeting recording and resources, reach out to shannon.raider@uconn.edu
- Develop your food safety plan and write a Standard Operating procedure. (SOP)
- Farm to School in the Classroom** December 19, 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.
- For meeting recording and resources, reach out to abigail.dubois@uconn.edu
- 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, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm, East Hartford Public Schools (for SFAs 0r Kitchen Leads, 1 attendee per district)
- 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.
*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.