Welcome to Farm to School Northeast: A Podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Connecticut high school student and food system activist Zane Tickoo to talk about his work and dedication to improve the local food system and support access to healthy food, local economy, and social justice through what he calls “the Power of the Plate”.

Hear from: Zane Tickoo, Food System Activist and High School Student, New Canaan, CT

Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Brian Winslow, a K-4 STEAM teacher from the Southwick School in Northfield, New Hampshire, to talk about their dynamic program that includes a greenhouse, aquaponics, an apiary, pollinator gardens and schoolwide composting.

Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have an opportunity to sit down with Denise Tapley Proctor, the Food Service Director for RSU 89 in Stacyville, Maine, to talk about the positive impacts of their farm to school program on students and families and their award-winning scratch cooking, which recently received the 2024 USDA Innovation in Preparation of School Meals award.

Hear From: Denise Proctor Tapley, Food Service Director, RSU 89, Staceyville, ME