2024 Prize Winners

From culturally connected meals in diverse school districts to underutilized seafood in coastal towns, these winners’ projects connect the land and sea to the classroom, community, and cafeterias.

Innovative projects focused on regional food byproducts, upcycling broccoli florets into broccoli tots and turning seaweed, soy, fiber and blueberry byproducts into high fiber, high protein, high value cereals and snacks for sale to schools.

Winning Projects:

• Building Capacity to Manufacture Upcycled Nutritious Grain Cereals & Snacks for College Students throughout New England

• Creating Culturally Connected Cafeterias in the Manchester, NH School District

• Local Food Works for Educational Institutions

• Intervale Food Hub Expanding Institutional Markets

• Meat in the Middle: Building Access Into Farm-to-School Supply Chains

• Rhody Seafood for Rhody Kids: Building Demand for Underutilized Species in School Food

• Seasonal Solutions: Advancing Local Procurement in Vermont’s School Cafeterias With Harvest of the Month

• Strengthening Food Bank Farm – Local Farmers – Springfield Public Schools Partnership

• Second Harvest Partnership: Upcycling Broccoli Processing Byproducts

TagsHigher Ed, K12, Leadership, Livestock, Seafood, Supply Chain