Green Mountain Farm-to-School (GMFTS) is a leader in the growing farm-to-school movement in Vermont. Our mission is to strengthen local food systems in Vermont by promoting positive economic relationships, education, and access between schools, farms, and communities.
We create and sustain healthy communities by working across the food system with capacity building, resource development, and technical assistance through our Farm-to-School program, Farm Direct food hub, and Lunchbox food truck.
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Thank you to our 2023 premier sponsors, The Abbey Group and Community National Bank!
Our work is made possible because of a network of businesses, institutions, organizations and community members who are in partnership with us.
You can view all our supporters here. Interested in becoming a sponsor? Please contact Catherine at ccusack@gmfts.org
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Thank you Jay/Westfield 4th graders for being great tomato caretakers! 🍅 These students helped to pot all the tomato starts and are taking time to water them each day before the plants are sent out to all our partner schools’ gardens.
Shout out to our farm partner, Joe’s Brook Farm! The farm provided over 250 lbs of spinach to local schools for May’s Harvest of the Month, which featured mixed greens. Here are some Glover students preparing the spinach and other greens with a parmesan dressing for their classmates to enjoy!
Joe’s Brook Farm is a certified organic farm located in Barnet, VT. Their CSA started last week and runs until November 14th! CSA members can pick up their shares every Tuesday in town, at the farm, or at the farm curbside. You also get to choose exactly what you want in your basket! Check out the different CSA packages on their website: joesbrookfarm.com
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Harvesting dandelion greens is fun AND edible! Students in Glover’s afterschool program made a parmesan dressing to toss over some wild edibles this week, and although the flavor was a bit too bitter for most of their liking, trying new things always helps us expand our palettes and this dish also connects us to the land we live on! Thanks for your willingness to try new things, Glover students!
Thank you to High Mowing Organic Seeds for their donation of seeds to our Farm-to-School program! Students are very excited to watch the seeds they plant come to life in their school gardens! 🌱🌞 @highmowingorganicseeds
Green Up Vermont was May 6th, and GMFTS joined the NCSU Encore Program to pick up trash around Newport, VT. Thank you to everyone who came out on a beautiful day to help! You can check out stats from all around the state at: greenupvermont.org
Happy Spring! 🌱 The sunflower seeds that Irasburg 2nd graders have been taking care of since winter in their classroom were beyond ready to be transplanted into the garden! It was a beautiful day to see them off from their pots into raised beds. Thank you for your seedling care, 2nd graders!🌻
Spring is here and so is a new garden sign design at Coventry Village School! A group of creative 6th graders volunteered to help scrape old paint, prime and design their school garden’s sign since the old paint was peeling off. We look forward to seeing the finished product!
Thank you to Johnny`s Selected Seeds for their donation of 27 seed packets, which we are now using in our spring seed workshops! Here are some Derby and Newport City students excited to plant the seeds for their school gardens! #growwithjohnnys @johnnys_seeds
