We facilitate sustainable purchasing relationships between local institutions and local farms, promote local food and agriculture education for students, and support state, regional and national networking of farm to school practitioners.

Monadnock Farm and Community Connection kicked off in 2007 through a series of community forums focused on strengthening the connection between the broader public and our vibrant agricultural community. MFCC was a wide range of volunteers and partner organizations' who have come together to address key issues like Education, Inventory, Policy and Infrastructure that help us grow a more resilient local food system. MFCC has celebrated local agriculture through events like Monadnock Matchmaker, Farm Appreciation Night and the Feast on this Film Festival, and was a driving force behind the inception of the Monadnock Food Co op, and Monadnock Menu

The Muskie School of Public Service is Maine’s distinguished public policy school, combining an extensive applied research and technical assistance portfolio with rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs in geography-anthropology, community planning and development (CPD), public health (MPH), and public policy and management (PPM). The school is nationally recognized for applying innovative knowledge to critical issues in the fields of sustainable development and health and human service policy and management, and is home to the Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy.