Monthly Archives: October 2012

Video Snack: Melanie Cheng on Advocating for Farmers

Melanie is the founder of social enterprise FarmsReach and nonprofit Om Organics. FarmsReach started as a web-based SaaS platform to facilitate regional B-to-B food distribution, and has since evolved into farm advocacy services to help farms become more financially and … Continue reading

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Food in Vermont: Weekly Events, 10/17-10/24

Heads up for the Week: • The Food Systems Symposium is coming up quickly (just two weeks away!), and more details are out. Find them on our Facebook page. • It Takes a Region NESAWG Conference is coming up on … Continue reading

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What the SNAP Challenge Taught Me

Guest blog post from Marian Dickinson, a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She was a student in UVM’s 2012 Breakthrough Leaders Program for Sustainable Food Systems. She blogs at For the Love of Food. I … Continue reading

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Civil Eats Features UVM Farmer Training Program’s Robinson Yost

What does the future of farming look like? Robinson Yost, a student in UVM’s Farmer Training Program, talked to Civil Eats about social change, revolutionary ideas, being a minority in the American agricultural industry, urban planning, and the future of … Continue reading

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Aiken Lecture 2012: Feeding 9 Million, Maintaining the Planet

This content was originally published by UVM University Communications as part of UVM Today. It was written by Joshua Brown. See original article by clicking here. Over the next forty years — if we are to feed the planet’s burgeoning … Continue reading

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