• Schools:  ​

• School food service may feature at least one Maryland-grown ingredient in free 'Grab-N-Go' meals. 
• Check out Harvest of the Month or the Seasonality Charts for locally grown products. 
• Distribute produce from a school garden or greenhouse.​​

• Families:  

• Go to a Farm, Farmers Market, Farm Stand or Garden
• ​​​​​​Families can go to a Maryland farm to pick apples or pumpkins. MDA’s Maryland’s Best program created an interactive map that links consumers with producers and markets during this time. 
• October is Maryland Apple Month. Share on social media a recipe from Maryland’s Apple Promotion Board or picking apples from one of Maryland’s 205 apple farms.  
• Farmiles are also encouraged to try one local product this week perhaps at a farmers market or farm stand.   Some popular fall Maryland-grown items are:
• ​Apples, Hardsquashes, Greens, Pumpkins, Chicken, Eggs, Milk, Mushrooms, 
• Kale, Sweet Potatoes.​​​​​

• ​At-Home Lessons and Activities: 

• Our friends at the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation (MAEF) have a great list of at-home lessons and activities. ​
• Do you have a budding student artist?  Consider entering MAEF’s Calendar Contest! 

• Virtual Farm Tours
  
• Take a virtual farm tour with Baltimore City Public School’s Great Kids Farm
  
• ​​​National Agriculture in the Classroom offers many different virtual farm tours from  sheep and beef farms to fruit and vegetable farms.

• ​Maryland Farm and Harvest:

Maryland Public Television (MPT) in partnership with the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has created Maryland Farm & Harvest, an Emmy award-winning series that puts a human face on farming.​

The MPT staff have curated the following Maryland Farm and Harvest episodes that will appeal to kids and have educational components by using agriculture to teach biology, environmental science, technology, history, or other useful subjects: