Vermont Harvest of the Month Resources For Educators

Use Vermont Harvest of the Month (VTHOM) original artwork, signage, recipes, and activities to explore, promote, and cook through the Vermont seasons. With a featured harvest each month, VTHOM can provide inspiration so that every member of your school community – teachers, staff, students, and parents – can play an important role in cultivating healthy, local, and seasonal eating habits all while supporting Vermont farmers and the community. 

Great Ways to Participate: 

How you utilize VTHOM materials is up to you. With our resources, you can: 

  • Sign the Pledge and receive a monthly newsletter 

  • Purchase VTHOM posters 

  • Conduct monthly taste tests in your school 

  • Use the fliers, signs, and recipes 

  • Plant a VTHOM crops into your school garden. 

  • Use what the kids grow for taste tests! 

  • Share the harvest online or on Facebook 

  • Integrate VTHOM recipes into your school menus 

Use our VTHOM Tools to Get Started:

Access all the materials you need to promote local, seasonal eating in your school. Download free resources including:

  • Taste Test Guide – get your school ready to conduct monthly VTHOM taste tests with: 

  • General information, worksheets, and curriculum 

  • Educator, Cafeteria, and Home Fliers 

  • Tasting recipes for each VTHOM Crop 

  • Signs for your cafeteria lunch line 

Contact any of these programs for more information on local produce delivery or farmers in your area:

ADDISON COUNTY

Addison County Relocalization Network - A nonprofit that provides grower outreach, farm-to-school programming, and produces an annual Addison County Local Food and Farm Guide.

NORTHEAST KINGDOM

Green Mountain Farm-to-School - A nonprofit providing farm-to-school programming, a regional food hub, and coordination of the statewide Vermont Harvest of the Month Campaign.

RUTLAND COUNTY

Rutland Area Food and Farm Link - A nonprofit that provides and oversees an annual Locally Grown guide, food and cooking education, a regional food hub, and farm business development.

WINDHAM COUNTY

Food Connects - A source for finding local produce markets, farm-to-school information, and local food hubs. Windham Farm and Food www.HarvestToMarket.com A regional food hub project of Food Connects.

STATEWIDE:

NOFA VT - A statewide nonprofit providing assistance and education for farmers and organizations, community food access, farm-to-school and farm-to-institution support, and a directory of local and organic markets.

VT Farm to Plate, Food Systems Atlas - A searchable map for Vermont people, places, and resources in Vermont’s food system.

VT Feed - A program of NOFA VT, VT Feed provides statewide farm-to-school programming.