Farm tours are a wonderful way for students and adults to learn more about local agriculture, but sometimes, going to a farm isn’t an option. Check out our virtual farm tour series to bring the farm to your school, site, or home!

This program, developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Project PA (Penn State University), promotes a local agricultural product each month.

Use these Activity Guides to support your educational activities in the classroom and cafeteria when celebrating the local agricultural product each month.

Network led webinar recordings available here.

Project PA has been supporting farm to school and creating resources for school food service personnel for more than a decade.

This collection of farm to ECE books highlights children’s books that feature characters with a range of backgrounds and life experiences.

Contact your local county extension office for gardening information and support.

SNAP-Ed provides nutrition education and policy, systems, and environmental change across PA, including farm to school. Find a provider near you.

The Mobile Agriculture Education Science Lab is a 40-foot mobile classroom that travels across the state of Pennsylvania bringing an interactive field trip style experience directly to schools and students in grades K-8. The Mobile Ag Lab is equipped with over 30 STEM-based science experiments and lessons, a certified teacher, and all the supplies needed for a hands-on learning experience. Each science experiment is designed to emphasize a different aspect of agriculture, including Pennsylvania’s commodities, the environment, biotechnology, food and fiber. While on our lab, students work cooperatively to solve a problem as they form a hypothesis, collect data and draw conclusions while focusing on the scientific method. Each lesson on the Mobile Ag Lab focuses on increasing student knowledge on the importance of agriculture and its impact on their daily lives.

Through our Fresh from California campaign, the Center for Ecoliteracy facilitated 11 farmer visits to public schools in California in 2022. We learned a lot from our school and farmer partners. This guide was developed to share those insights and help schools plan and host successful visits from local fruit and vegetable farmers.

Teaching students where their food comes from is a fundamental step in the development of healthy eating habits. Dairy foods can play a unique role in Farm to School efforts because they are made year-round and are more local than you might think.

Eating healthy food helps you grow up great. Find out more about how food fuels your body.

Grab your apron, because this section’s got great recipes that you’ll love to make and eat! From strawberry smoothies to perfect pizzas, we’ll explain how to make some tasty treats.

Nutritious ways to keep kids satisfied at the table.

Nutritious recipes parents will love and kids can’t resist!

Answers to your questions about nutrition and fitness.

We understand eating healthy and improving diet isn’t always easy, that’s why we’ve put together these guides discussing different nutritional guidelines, tips for making the most of your meals, and healthy snack ideas.

Color Me Healthy teaches four- and five-year-olds about healthy eating and exercise.

At Tinkergarten, we provide classes and curriculum to make purposeful, outdoor play doable for teachers and families. Try some DIY versions of our outdoor activities with your child, and join our community to get the full learning experience!

Children can be empowered to make healthy choices. Here are materials to support you in helping children develop healthy relationships with food and strategies for making easy, healthy, budget-friendly snacks and meals!

The Food Trust’s virtual learning center is a one-stop shop offering lessons, curricula, videos, recipes, resources and more.

Welcome to Discover Dairy, an engaging, interactive, cross-curricular educational series that meets Common CORE Standards for Math, Science and Reading. This lesson series shows upper elementary and middle school students where milk comes from and how dairy farmers contribute to our world. Discover Dairy is a resource provided at no cost to educators and others who are interested in teaching students about the dairy industry.

Tools and articles for redesigning school meal programs and helping students learn about food’s place in our lives

Farm to ECE in Tribal programs can be used to introduce the traditional foods, foodways, culture and language of the Tribe. Although farm to ECE is relatively new, this practice of embracing Indigenous knowledge and values in harmony with Native lifeways has existed for generations and has proven positive results on health, education and hunger.

This guide is a comprehensive manual for planning and implementing farm-to-school programs in Native American communities. Native farm-to-school programs have become an important way to introduce traditional foods and practices into curriculum, as well as to promote Native health, self-reliance and sustainability.

Make it a family affair with our Kids Club. Further inspire kiddos to start healthy eating and entrepreneurial conversations with activities, printables and more!

These colorful and engaging newsletters for parents of young children can be shared by Child and Adult Care Food Program providers to communicate information about popular nutrition topics.

Free lesson plans, virtual field trips, and teacher resources to bring educational standards to life, with agriculture, in K-12 classrooms.

This collection of farm to ECE books by the PA Farm to School Network highlights children’s books that feature characters with a range of backgrounds and life experiences. All discussion guides are also translated into Spanish.

Welcome to our Farm to School bookshelf! Search this ever-growing database to find our recommendations, which are perfect for teaching about gardening, cooking, farms, food, and nature. Use our list to find children’s literature, cookbooks, and curriculum for the classroom, school library, or home.

Have a whole month of farming fun with these children’s farm books. Some of these children’s books are about food, gardening, or farming – but all can help a young reader learn more about where their food or clothes come from!

For the future farmer, chef, or foodie in your life.

The Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network (PA NEN) is a state-wide SNAP-Ed provider working to improve the nutrition and wellbeing of SNAP-Ed eligible Pennsylvanians through three primary initiatives: the Be Healthy PA social marketing campaign, the CookWith recipe app, and professional development opportunities for PA SNAP-Ed staff and other nutrition and public health professionals.