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  • Just Cause Statement & Strategic Plan

    FINE serves a dynamic network of communities, organizations, and institutions working together to create a just, equitable, and regenerative food system in New England and beyond.

    Institutions hold substantial power and wield significant influence in our food system through their food service, education, investment, employment and land use. We believe that developing institutional food value chains that are responsive to community needs and rooted in racial justice, food sovereignty and climate resilience is a critical way to leverage the power of institutions to change the food system.

    The changes we seek can only be achieved when led by a collaborative, adaptive network committed to collective power and increased regional self-reliance.

     

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    We recognize that the inequities in our food system impact some communities more than others. Our strive that our work be informed by, participated in, and have a positive impact these priority impacted communities which we define as 1) Farms, producers, and food businesses, with an emphasis on those who have been structurally excluded from funding, resources, and decision making - and - 2) Communities and eaters who are impacted by institutional food systems and/or rely on institutions for a majority of their food and nutrients, with an emphasis on communities facing food apartheid.

    • Our Impact

    • Commitment to DEI

      FINE is committed to addressing the inequities on which our current food system is built and which we as food systems practitioners perpetuate when we accept the status quo.

      Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    • Webinar Series

      Voices of the Network Webinar Series 2025-2026

      FINE regularly hosts webinars to bring stories of resilience, belonging, partnership, and innovation across our region and along the farm to institution value chain. View all recordings on YouTube - and register for an upcoming one!

      Voices of the Network: 2025–2026 Farm to Institution Webinar Series

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        Northeast Farm to Institution Summit

      • Newsletter

      • Team

        Meet our staff and network advisory council!

        We're working to ensure that students and patients at schools, colleges and hospitals across New England have access to healthy, regionally grown food.

        Staff

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        Program Manager
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        Co-Executive Director
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        Director of Communications and Operations
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        Project Director
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        Intern

        Network Advisory Council

        Owner/Founder, Red Root Collaborative
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        Co-Founder, Seed Change Strategies
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        Chief Program Officer, Genuine Foods
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        Professor of the Practice in the College of the Environment, Wesleyan University; Associate Director of Community Engagement at the Bailey College of the Environment
        Founder and CEO, FATBOY Foods
        Coordinator, New Connecticut Farmer Alliance
        Director of Farm to Table, Maine Department of Corrections
        Deputy Director & Senior Researcher, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, Vermont Law and Graduate School
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        Farm and Sea to School Director, Farm Fresh Rhode Island
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        Director of Programs, The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT)
        Co-Founder, Carceral Nutrition Project
        Finance and Operations Director, National Farm to School Network
        Director of Food Security, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
        Chief Culinary Officer, Phoenix3 Holdings
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        Founder & President, Tory Hill

      • Funders

        Farm to Institution New England is generously funded by the following foundations and agencies:

        Cotyledon Fund 

        Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation

        Henry P. Kendall Foundation

        United States Department of Agriculture

        Anonymous 

         

        We are also grateful for those who support us through sponsorship and FINE's consulting services. 

      • Candid platinum badge

        Farm to Institution New England is proud to hold a Platinum nonprofit status from GuideStar.

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        Donate by Mail

        To make a donation by mail, please make checks payable to Third Sector New England / TSNE with FINE in the memo line mail them to our fiscal sponsor:

        Third Sector New England or TSNE
        for Farm to Institution New England or FINE
        89 South St, Suite 700
        Boston, MA 02111

        TSNE logo with tagline 'Partners in social change'

         Farm to Institution New England is fiscally sponsored by Third Sector New England, Inc. (TSNE), a charitable 501(c)(3) organization.

      • History

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        Farm to Institution New England (FINE) was launched in 2011 as a joint initiative of the Regional Steering Committee of the National Farm to School Network and a collaboration of New England agricultural commissioners. Since inception, FINE has focused on developing cross-sector connections between K-12 schools, colleges and universities, hospitals and other institutions such as day cares, health centers, assisted living facilities, prisons, government facilities and corporate campuses. Today, FINE serves those at the forefront of the farm to institution movement in the region, providing a forum to connect and share ideas, models, resources and support. Learn more about our network by reading our story as a book chapter, and in this case study.

      • Jobs

        We do not have any paid positions open at this time.

        Subscribe to our newsletter where we post food system job opportunities from around New England. 

      • Contact Us

        General Inquiries info@farmtoinstitution.org
        89 South Street, Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02111

        Tania Taranovski, tania@farmtoinstitution.org : network, funding opportunities, Campus sector, value chain coordination
        Hannah Leighton, hannah@farmtoinstitution.org : data, metrics, evaluation, research
        Dana Stevens, dana@farmtoinstitution.org : F2iSummit, events, projects, K12 and Early Care sectors
        Britt Florio, brittany@farmtoinstitution.org : Programs, culture, and Carceral sector
        Sarah Lyman, sarah@farmtoinstitution.org : Communications, AI, collective and strategic narratives