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For Educators
Activities For Students
Early Childhood
Farm to School

Let's Make Pickles!

Find some pickle-making inspiration to bring food systems learning to your earliest learners.

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For Educators
Early Childhood
Farm to School

Leveraging Federal & State Funding for Innovations in Farm to Early Childhood

How can early educators make the best use of federal and state funding to connect their children to local food and nutrition and agriculture education?

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For Educators
Early Childhood
Farm to School

The Power of Food to Connect Across Cultures

The Janet Munt Family Room in Burlington has a secret ingredient: a deep understanding of the importance of food in sustaining health, community, and culture.

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Early Childhood
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Recipes

Letting Go of the Recipe: Hands-On Cooking with Kids

Try the "recipes" we cooked up during Cultivating Joy & Wonder, our annual professional learning workshop for early childhood educators.

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Early Childhood
Education Impact
Farm to School

Sharing a Love of Food to Foster Community

Laura Butler's commitment to building community among her families and children is a central theme of her farm to early childhood program.

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Early Childhood
Farm to School

The Joy & Lessons of Butter Making

June is National Dairy Month, and we’re sharing a new how-to video showing one of our favorite activities: making butter!

Early Childhood
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Farm to School

Growing Farm to Early Childhood Programs

Educators Jed Norris and Cynthia Greene share about their work supporting educators in bringing food, health, and agriculture learning into early childhood classrooms.

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A Farm to Early Childhood Update with Cynthia Greene

Feeding our youngest children healthy food, providing professional development to Vermont’s early educators is an integral focus for Vermont FEED.

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Farm to School
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Farm to Early Childhood Resources

Farm to Early Childhood applies our "3C Model" (Classroom, Cafeteria/Kitchen, and Community) to engage families and young learners in agricultural and nutritional learning.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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Shelburne Farms is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID #03-0229347)