April 14-16, 2027
Burlington, Vermont

Agenda & Registration Coming in December

Brought to you by
Farm to Institution New England
& Vermont Farm to School and Early Childhood Network

For the first time in FINE's history, we are bringing the F2iSummit to Vermont!

Every two years, the Northeast Farm to Institution Summit brings together food system leaders from across the region to spark ideas, build partnerships, share resources and skills, and strengthen our collective impact. More than 500 farmers, food service directors, distributors, educators, and advocates gather to do this work in person — and leave ready to act.

New in 2027

We are particularly excited to announce our event partnership with the Vermont Farm to School and Early Childhood Network. This partnership will allow us to highlight the amazing work happening across Vermont, and amplify farm to school and early childhood programming while continuing to create robust cross-sector opportunities for carceral, health care, and campus institutional value chains.

Thursday, April 15 is Vermont Farm to School and Early Childhood (FTSEC) Network Day. Vermont's child nutrition professionals, farmers, educators, distributors, and community partners gather to share how the state connects students with local food — and every F2iSummit attendee is welcome to join them. Whether you work in school gardens, procurement, nutrition education, early care settings, K-12 classrooms, or cafeteria operations, Thursday offers a close look at one state's approach and the people behind it. FTSEC sessions, panels, and field trips also run across all three days, alongside programming for hospitals, colleges, and carceral food systems throughout the region.

Conference Theme & Goals

Theme: Connected Systems, Collective Impact

A strong regional food system is a complex web of individuals, communities, infrastructure - and the relationships that hold it all together. The stronger the connections between these pieces, the more resilient and powerful the whole becomes. This is the work of building supply chains while building trust, of changing policy while changing mindsets, of expanding infrastructure while expanding our capacity to think creatively. This is the work of partnership, vision, innovation, and courageous collaboration.

And it isn’t work any one of us can do alone.

Now more than ever we need spaces to tell our stories and learn from each other’s successes and challenges. We need spaces to deepen our collective knowledge, broaden our understanding of what is possible, and imagine how we’re going to get there. The 2027 Northeast Farm to Institution Summit will be that space - where we come together across communities, sectors, and the food system to turn individual efforts into connected systems and collective impact.

Goals:

• Advance diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Support individual and organizational connections

• Grow individual, intergenerational, and collective capacity

• Spark action

• Foster joy, celebration, and belonging

• Honor our host community

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Call for Proposals

The Call for Proposals has closed and we are now reviewing proposals. WOW! We are so impressed! Here’s what we are learning as we read through them:

1. We received a record-breaking 109 proposals - 25% more than in 2025 - far more than we have room for, so our review committee certainly has its work ahead of them.

2. Y’all SHOWED UP for our event’s theme Connected Systems, Collective Impact. Over half of the proposals come from teams of two or more, and many of those teams bring together partners from different states, institutions and points in the supply chain.

3. Presenters are from 19 states and Washington, DC, with about 80% coming from the Northeast. Our host state showed up big time, with Vermont presenters on nearly a third of all proposals.

4. The most common topics were network and movement building, supply chain coordination, engaging students, and messaging and storytelling. Proposals reached every sector we serve: K-12 schools, early care and education, colleges and universities, healthcare and Food is Medicine, and prisons and jails. Some also extended farm to institution into new settings, such as programs that serve older adults.