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Video Snack: Patty Cantrell on Diversifying & Localizing Food Choices

Patty Cantrell is a journalist and community organizer focused on making the business case for local and regional food. At Regional Food Solutions LLC, she works with nonprofit and educational clients to commuicate new food and farm business options and … Continue reading

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Video Snack: UVM’s Vern Grubinger on Replacing Anonymity with Accountability

Vern Grubinger has been working with and learning from farmers for 30 years. He is the vegetable and berry specialist and Extension Professor with the University of Vermont, and coordinator of the USDA Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program … Continue reading

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#FoodThanks for Thanksgiving

From the Ag Chat Foundation: “Our nation’s Thanksgiving holiday presents a prime opportunity to help remind people to “thank a farmer” for the food on their table. Many Americans this month are using their personal Facebook pages and Twitter feeds … Continue reading

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Video Snack: Dr. Robert Lawrence on Going Meatless

Dr. Robert Lawrence, MD is the Center for a Livable Future Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with joint appointments as Professor of Health Policy, International Health and Medicine. … Continue reading

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A Day in the Life of a Food Systems Change Leader

Guest blog post from Linda Phillips, a student in UVM’s 2012 Breakthrough Leaders Program for Sustainable Food Systems. Linda is a graduate of Oberlin College, where she studied government and urban studies. She has worked for 25 years as a … Continue reading

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