This is Dig In!
Feeding Each Other
Growing Together
Programs
Dig In offers four integrated core programs designed to transform how youth experience our food system and our living world – at school, after school, and at home.
Programs are designed for school districts, afterschool programs, and community organizations.
School Taste Tests
Interactive, data-informed tasting experiences that help schools successfully introduce nutritious, locally sourced, scratch cooked menu items by centering student voice and curiosity.
School Garden Programs
Collaboratively designed, curriculum-aligned programs facilitated in dynamic outdoor learning environments that allow students to develop joyful, curious, and empowered relationships with food and the natural world.
After School Cooking and Garden Clubs
Hands-on cooking and gardening programs designed for middle and high schoolers that build essential skills and foster confidence, creativity, and lifelong food literacy in a joyful, inclusive environment.
Family Cooking Workshops
Interactive cooking programs that help families have fun and build skills and deeper relationships in the kitchen, emphasizing from a young age that cooking is an act of love.
Our Story
Dig In started in 2023 with a simple idea – to bring vibrant food, farm, and garden education to Greenfield Public Schools. Dig In Founder and Director Kyle Zegel, who at the time was the Community Support Coordinator at Just Roots, approached former Greenfield School Food Service Director Greta Shwachman and the two applied for a MA FRESH (Farming Reinforces Education and Student Health) grant to establish a cafeteria taste test program, 3rd grade field trips to Just Roots, and an indigenous food systems lesson series in the 3rd grade classrooms.
Since then, Dig In has expanded to offer new programs including school gardens, after school cooking and garden clubs, and family cooking workshops. Dig In now works with multiple school districts, libraries, community centers, and housing complexes and has plans to continue to grow to support farm to school in western Massachusetts!