A strategic guide for effective state budget advocacy—detailing how to influence line‑item appropriations, coordinate with legislative champions, and shape the fiscal narrative to secure local food system investments.
Practical guidance for engaging legislators—such as building relationships, submitting impactful testimony, and navigating the legislative process—to effectively advocate for local food system policy change.
A tool to help you make meaningful changes that affect your work and your community. Using these tools, you and your allies can contribute to creating policy that helps the food system thrive.
To help Massachusetts children grow and lead healthy, independent, thoughtful lives, all students in grades K - 12 should have access to food system education in school, learning about agriculture, nutrition, food justice, and culinary skills.
This report outlines examples of teachers and nonprofits teaching about agriculture, nutrition, culinary skills, and food justice, resources that exist to support this work, and what Massachusetts should do to expand food system education to all K – 12 students.
