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Grounding School Food Service in Culture and Place: A Rooted in Community Case Study

Hannah Leighton, FINE Co-Executive Director
IntroductionIn August 2024, Westbrook, Maine school district reimagined their back-to-school food service orientation. Rather than gathering in…

Getting Produce into Vermont Prisons? It Takes Creative Food Processing

[Guest Author] Martha Machia, Processing Program Manager at Salvation Farms
This blog is guest authored by Martha Machia, Processing Program Manager at Salvation Farms. Salvation Farms’ mission is to support a more…

Announcing a F2iSummit Review

Tania Taranovski, Director of Programs
FINE is pleased to announce a new document that reviews the 2023 Northeast Farm to Institution Summit, in conjunction with the launch of a new…

FINE Brings New England Leaders to Maine Prisons

Britt Florio, FINE Program Manager
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…

We Need to Focus on the Damn Land: Land Grant Universities and Indigenous Nations in the Northeast

Hannah Leighton, Director of Research and Evaluation
Research by Maeve McCurdy, Fee Pelz-Sharpe, and Sofia Perrotto   In the Fall of 2020, three undergraduates from Smith College partnered with…

A Brief History of Labor Actions Among Dining Workers in Higher Education: Lessons for Current Labor Challenges

Megnot Mulugeta, Program Associate
In New England, colleges and universities are some of the largest employers of food service workers, who prepared and served close to 87 million…

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