Hello!
Thanks for your feedback last month about communications platforms for enhancing our networking capacity! You had some great suggestions, and Mieko Ozeki of Radiance Studios also offered her wisdom (she's a fan of Slack and Mighty Networks!) The take home message? Our network needs multiple entry points to serve the diverse learning and connecting styles of members.
Wishing you good health,
Vera Simon-Nobes
FBEN Coordinator
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Healing the Roots of Racism in Ourselves
This series creates space for healing from white supremacy culture and transforming anti-Blackness within ourselves, toward healing our webs of relationships, organizations and societal structures. In this series participants will practice a creative combination of healing practices ranging from embodied awareness to movement, reflection and writing. Join this series with peer farm-based educators to rediscover, relearn, and reimagine in our current crisis-driven reality. Learn about our facilitators and program goals at the registration links below.
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FBEN Community Check-In with Smokey House Center
Join Jamie Lombardo, Program Manager at Smokey House Center in Danby, VT for a conversation about what's happening at their farm-based education center as we enter deep winter. We'll chat with Jamie about their 2021 season, and will have space to hear your updates, questions, and connections as well.
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Farm to Early Childhood in the Kitchen Workshop Virtual Series
Farm to early childhood (FTEC) encourages our youngest learners to investigate their food systems, adopt healthy eating behaviors, and develop deeper connections to their communities. It connects Classrooms, Cafeterias/Kitchens, and Communities (the 3C’s)! Whether you’re a family child care, Head Start, center-based, public pre-K, or home visiting educator , join us to explore and expand your food and nutrition programming while building and strengthening community relationships.
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FBEN Summer Farm Camp Meetings
Join this space if you offer summer camp on your farm! Most attendees will be from day camps, but overnight camps are welcome, too. New for this year: shorter zoom meetings (30 minutes) every other week and an invitation for YOU to share-out where you are in your camp-planning.
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Farm-Based Educators Winter Gathering
Join peers at the the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Farm-Based Education Winter Gathering to be held Wednesday Feb. 2 - Thursday Feb. 3 at Holly Ridge Equestrian Center in Willards on Maryland's beautiful Eastern Shore! Morning sessions will be followed by lunch and an afternoon of FBE tours in partnership with the Living Local Project, Maryland Coastal Bays Program. Stay another two days and be sure to attend the Annual MAEOE Conference in nearby Ocean City, Maryland! Email Peggy with questions:
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Infusing Agriculture Education in the Elementary Classroom:
Spring 2022 with MAEF & Goucher College
Save the dates March 30 -through May 14, 2022, for the next offering of the popular 8 -week online-hybrid course "Infusing Agriculture Education in the Elementary Classroom." Designed for Maryland classroom teachers PreK - 5, this course features field sessions and enriching online experiences that help educators infuse agriculture across content areas. This course awards 3 MSDE professional development credits! Please contact Tonya Wible at twible@maefonline.com to be placed on an interest list for the start of registration announcement!
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Common Good City Farm is hiring a Farm Educator to work with their Certificate Program, and in particular, with teens. More details here.
Common Good City Farm is a nonprofit organization founded in 2007 and has a mission to create a vibrant, informed, and well-nourished community through urban farming. Common Good’s half-acre farm in DC’s LeDroit Park is the principal site for programs providing hands-on training in food production, healthy eating, and environmental sustainability to people of all ages and backgrounds.
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Ben Holmes founded The Farm School in 1989 in Athol, MA in order to offer the coming generations the gift of experiences he had been given on his family farm. In 2006, Ben helped co-found the Farm-Based Education Network (that's us!). He recently began a new chapter of "retirement" and has launched a consultancy to support farm-based orgs. Be in touch with Ben for more info! And see our full list of consultants here.
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Making Farm to School Visible with Lawn Signs |
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This fall, the Vermont Farm to School & Early Childhood Network invited Vermont farmers selling to schools and early childhood programs to post a lawn sign on their farm or market booth that raises awareness of how many farms in our state feed our youth. By displaying this sign, local farmers showed state leaders how much our community values access to healthy, local food. Check out a video of the campaign!
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Vermont Harvest of the Month is a program run by three nonprofit organizations in the Green Mountain state to promote seasonal eating, encourage healthy diets and support the local economy. They provide ready to go materials for the classroom, cafeteria, and community that promotes the use of local, seasonal Vermont foods. Visit their website for resources, to take the pledge, and to find recipes.
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KidsGardening Grants Due December 17
Any nonprofit organization, public or private school, or youth program in the United States or US Territories planning a new garden program or expanding an established one that serves at least 15 youth between the ages of 3 and 18 is eligible to apply for a Youth Garden Grant from KidsGardening! A total of 50 programs will be awarded. Applications are due December 17, 2021. More information.
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