Hannah Leighton, FINE Co-Executive Director
August 25, 2025
IntroductionIn August 2024, Westbrook, Maine school district reimagined their back-to-school food service orientation. Rather than gathering in…
[Guest Author] Martha Machia, Processing Program Manager at Salvation Farms
August 19, 2025
This blog is guest authored by Martha Machia, Processing Program Manager at Salvation Farms. Salvation Farms’ mission is to support a more…
Peter Allison, Outgoing Executive Director
June 19, 2025
Leadership transitions can be tricky - to say the least. This is especially true when leaders have been around for a while. Transitions raise all…
Britt Florio, FINE Program Manager
October 17, 2023
In mid-August, Farm to Institution New England (FINE) organized a site visit to two correctional facilities in Maine to see first hand some exemplary…
Hannah Leighton, Director of Research and Evaluation
August 20, 2021
Research by Maeve McCurdy, Fee Pelz-Sharpe, and Sofia Perrotto
In the Fall of 2020, three undergraduates from Smith College partnered with…
Megnot Mulugeta, Program Associate
August 16, 2021
In New England, colleges and universities are some of the largest employers of food service workers, who prepared and served close to 87 million…
