Host a Climate Change and Farming Week Event!

CISA’s annual Climate Change and Farming Week is an opportunity for CISA, farmers, allied organizations, and individuals to host events that build awareness of and support for local food and farm businesses as they seek solutions to the many challenges of growing food in a warmer, wetter New England. Climate Change and Farming Week is held annually in September, in conjunction with nationwide Climate Week events and the UN General Assembly meetings in New York. This collaborative event series seeks to celebrate climate resiliency and facilitate stronger and broader relationships between our food system’s stakeholders through learning and adapting together. 

Our fifth annual Climate Change & Farming Week will be held September 20th – 26th, 2026. Consider organizing an event and helping CISA build awareness of and support for farmers as they adapt to all the challenges of growing food in a warmer, wetter New England. 

Interested in hosting an event? Submit your idea here!

What kinds of events are appropriate?  

We prefer to leave this up to you, however, here are a few examples:

• Host an online or on-farm workshop for your constituents on some aspect of climate change & farming 

• Host a tree planting on a farm that wants to reforest part of its land or plant trees that produce food 
• Host a farm equipment fair that highlights new, adaptive farming equipment and practices that address climate concerns such as greenhouse gas emissions or soil health 
•  Organize a letter writing event in support of Farm Bill revisions and programs that favor climate-friendly farming 
•  Organize a film showing of a film related to climate change & farming
•  Schedule a meeting with legislators to share your support for protecting farmland and incentivizing resilient farming practices 

• Promote your local farmer’s market for that week 
• If you work with students, discuss climate change & farming in the classroom
• Paint a mural 
• Hold a fundraising campaign for your organization’s climate change & farming programs that week 

 REGISTER AN EVENT HERE!

Questions? Inquiries? Contact CISA’s Climate Program Coordinator, Stephen Taranto, at stephen@buylocalfood.org or 413-665-7100, ext. 17.