Past Events

Student farmers across programs and universities gather to present about their own programs and learn about others to collectively grow and improve campus food systems.

Are you working on or interested in values-based institutional food procurement? The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is, too! Join Jessika Brenin and Mark Fine from MAPC, Simca Horwiz from Massachusetts Farm to School, and Betsy Skoda from Healthcare Without Harm to reflect on values-based food procurement in municipal, school, and healthcare settings, to find partners in this work, and to jumpstart action.

[Monthly on Wednesdays March 22  - November 15 with a summer break]

For people who want to discover how whiteness has shaped them and practice new cognitive, emotional, and bodily/somatic patterns. Why this series? Land stewardship in the US has a deep history of racism, and yet land offers resources for resilience and healing from racism. As farm and food system workers and educators connected to land, we have a unique responsibility and opportunity to deeply engage in this healing work. Through this series, you're invited to take a step back from analysis and cognitive learning to shift personal patterns in your body and heart. Facilitators will share practices to help us focus on abundance, resilience, interdependence, and humility: qualities we need to build authentic, trusting relationships with people of all identities. Hosted by the Farm-Based Education Network in partnership with the School Garden Support Organization Network, your peers in the workshop will be farmers, staff at food, farm, and agriculture organizations and farm-based educators. Register by 3/20/23.

Join Massachusetts Farm to School at Pause and Pivot Farm in Williamsburg, MA where hosts, Miana Hoyt Dawson and Terry Dawson, will show their hydroponic systems. Participants will learn how a small hydroponic growing system works, and will also get to go inside the Freight Farm where greens are grown year round for market. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and have a tasting of hydroponic greens.

Join CADE as we invite Food as Medicine Coordinator, Kate Miller Corcoran of Food & Health Network and 607 CSA’s Wholesale and Program Manager Cheryl Landsman to explore market opportunities in food access programs. This conversation will help us define food as medicine and explore the role farmers can play in supporting initiatives, while reaching untapped markets. Hear farm and food business experiences on navigating these programs and understand the potential of sales generation that can be secured while maintaining food justice and access values. 

Part of the NH Farm to School Network's 2023 Webinar Series

How can hydroponics work in the school cafeteria? In this workshop from Massachusetts Farm to School, participants will learn how hydroponics can be used in the School Cafeteria to grow food and engage students. You will learn the whole process from starting the hydros to cleaning them at the end of the school year. Jane will share some tricks she’s learned along the way since 2015. The possibilities are endless and the best part is…you don’t need a green thumb! 

Presenter: Jane Rice, Cook Manager, Foxborough Public Schools

(Session 3 of a 3-Part Series from Food Systems Leadership Network) Using the Message Box tool introduced in Session 1, participants will work with a Spitfire coach and peers to workshop tailored messages and gain support on how/when to deploy their messaging effectively. In small groups, participants will craft language and messaging for two different audiences specific to the Farm Bill. As a group, we will share back our work and receive live feedback and suggestions from Spitfire coaches. This session will help participants practice using the Messaging Box and equip them with ideas and tips for applying it to your own work.

Join together at UMass - Amherst to network with your peers, cheer on the Chefs competing in the Culinary Challenge, see what’s new at Showcase and learn something new from our presenters.

Part of the Growing School Gardens Summit Webinar Series from the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation and the School Garden Support Organization Network.

Join a group of seafood professionals with vested interest in New York’s seafood industry to foster active communications and build productive relationships and collaboration throughout the state.

How can hydroponics work in the classroom setting? In this workshop from Massachusetts Farm to School, participants will learn how to build (and teach students to build) a simple, low-cost hydroponic growing system that can be set up in any school classroom. The workshop will explore how to build the system and how to empower and organize students to maintain, run and grow food in the classroom. Presenters: Miana Hoyt Dawson, Pause and Pivot Farm

Join a group of seafood professionals with vested interest in New York’s seafood industry to foster active communications and build productive relationships and collaboration throughout the state.

Join a group of seafood professionals with vested interest in New York’s seafood industry to foster active communications and build productive relationships and collaboration throughout the state.

NOAA Fisheries recently released a draft National Seafood Strategy. The agency is soliciting written input until March 16, 2023. To ensure that the agency hears from small-scale and community-based fishing entities, the Local Catch Network is hosting a Listening Session on March 6, 2023 at 4 PM ET for NOAA Fisheries. 

Please join the University of California, Merced on Monday, 3/6 at 3 PM PDT for an Ask Me Anything with Sophie Egan. Biography: Sophie Egan, MPH is Director of the Stanford Food Institute and Sustainable Food Systems at R&DE Stanford Dining, where she is Co-Director of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative. 

Part of the NH Food Alliance Network Café Series.

(Session 2 of a 3-Session Series from Food Systems Leadership Network) Partner organizations walk through how they leveraged key communications tools like the Message Box and deployed messaging that advanced key policies. They will share challenges and tips for telling your stories in accessible and compelling ways, and answer questions about developing your own messaging campaigns. 

This B2B networking event is a great opportunity for food entrepreneurs and wholesale buyers to connect, explore new sales arrangements, and strengthen the New England food system. Early registration discounts for exhibitors and attendees until Dec 18.

A day of engaging virtual workshops for farmers, foodies, and agricultural advocates. Keynote by chef, advocate, organizer and educator Neftali Duran.

Did you know that Districts across CT are poised to receive federal dollars that can only be spent on fresh and minimally processed local product? This free, day-long workshop will bring together farmers and public-school food service directors to learn, connect and share best practices, success stories and frustrations.

(Session 1 of a 3-Session Series from Food Systems Leadership Network) Spitfire Strategies will help participants learn how to build strategies for creating productive, lasting relationships with policymakers on the upcoming Farm Bill – based on the participants’ existing skill-level and expertise in advocacy. Participants will get a preview of Spitfire’s Message Box tool and how to create messages that channel  the core values, concerns and challenges of priority audiences. The Message Box will help participants create compelling messages that focus on their unique policy platforms and build champions among their priority legislators. 

Dream Into Being is an invitation to pause, collectively dream the agricultural future we long for, and learn together about seeds to plant today to grow the fruits of tomorrow

Part of the NH Farm to School Network's 2023 Webinar Series

Part of the Growing School Gardens Summit Webinar Series from the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation and the School Garden Support Organization Network.

Part of the NH Farm to School Network's 2023 Webinar Series

Gather with farmers, service providers and community supporters at this daylong event to discuss and increase disability awareness while being equipped with skills and resources to become allies in advocating for accessibility in agriculture.

Part of the NH Food Alliance Network Café Series.

This webinar will cover benchmarks and decision making tools to understand if your business is wholesale ready. One of many webinars offered by CADE.

Part of the NH Farm to School Network's 2023 Webinar Series