Seed2Tray

07/26/2021

A push for universal meals at Vermont’s schools is expected to come before the Legislature in the coming year.

06/26/2021

Between starting Seed2Tray and creating healthy, scratch made lunches - to testifying at the state house for universal school meals and locally sourced food programs - we have so many reasons and more to celebrate Chef Chris! His commitment to fighting food insecurity and doing the work to make our Vermont communities a better place will have a lasting impact.

We are so lucky and proud to have had such a legendary force among us. The food service program will be left in amazing hands, and the best is yet to come for his next chapter! We’ll always be missing you.

VERNON — North Carolina has long been the place where Chris Parker wanted to end up, having fallen in love with it when he was younger. When his high school

06/21/2021

We have great news! Governor Scott has signed H.106 and the budget bill, which together included a Local Food Purchasing Incentive for Vermont schools, and $500,000 to fund the first year of this incentive. This new law (now Act 67) creates an incentive program for Vermont schools to purchase locally produced foods for their school meal programs, based on the overall percentage of local food purchased.
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This victory was possible because of all of the work you all have done over the past many years - from building your Farm to School programs to talking with legislators to participating in Farm to School month activities to working out the nitty gritty details of local food purchasing. THANK YOU for all of this great work. This law is a giant step forward for our school meal programs and our farms and food producers. It will help to create new, reliable markets for farmers and food producers. Full details from the Vermont Farm to School Network @ https://bit.ly/3gKH72y.
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📷: 2018, Ben Hudson

06/18/2021

ICYMI: NewBrook Elementary School Elementary School is hiring a Farm to School Coordinator! Help maintain the school gardens, teach food, farming, and nutrition education to students, and organize Farm to School events in partnership with the FTS Committee, school nutrition program, and parents. Check out the attached job posting for more details!

https://buff.ly/3wCXnYZ

05/27/2021

We are forever grateful for our own and for all of the others out there who are feeding students everyday. Many of which depend on these meals for their daily nutrition. Thank you!

General Mills Convenience and Foodservice

05/13/2021

BRATTLEBORO — Growing food in a school garden has become an important part of the curriculum in many schools in Windham County.

05/08/2021

Thank you U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for always being a champion for universal school meals 👏 “The Universal School Meals Program Act of 2021 would permanently provide free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack to all school children regardless of income, eliminate school meal debt, and strengthen local economies by incentivizing local food procurement.”

Fri, 05/07/2021 - 1:14pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) Friday announced legislation to expand on the success of the universal free lunch approach recently extended by the....

05/07/2021

Don’t forget to thank a school food service professional today! We appreciate all that you do to feed our kids!

05/05/2021

HCRS has partnered with IndieFlix to bring you a movie about anxiety and mental health, "Angst." FREE screening this Thursday, May 6th. Recommended for parents and teachers of young people in 5th grade and up.

05/03/2021

This is an incredible story and a message we wholeheartedly agree with! And on the heels of S.100 officially passing in the Vermont State Senate, requiring all public schools in Vermont to provide universal breakfast, at no cost to students or families, starting in the 2022-23 school year! WCAX-TV

Carol McQuillen, a long-time teacher and volunteer director of Common Roots, is one of the pioneers of the Farm to School movement.

04/28/2021

More GOOD NEWS from Capitol Hill! Today, the Kids Eat Local Act – which will make it easier for schools to purchase food from local farmers for school meals – has been introduced with bipartisan support in the Senate & House. More details here → http://www.farmtoschool.org/news-and-articles/news-release-kids-eat-local-act-introduced-in-senate-house

Thank you to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and U.S. Senator Susan Collins, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, Rep. Josh Harder, and Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, PhD for introducing the Kids Eat Local Act and paving the way for increased healthy food in schools and new economic opportunities for local farmers and food producers.

National Farm to School Network and our partners National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition applaud the introduction of this bill and urge all members of Congress to support this simple, yet significant change for school meals.

04/27/2021

Investigation reveals the scale of America’s hunger and food insecurity crisis during a year of Covid-19, and its racial inequalities