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Video Snack: Melanie Cheng on Advocating for Farmers

Posted by admin  |  October 19, 2012

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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What the SNAP Challenge Taught Me

Posted by admin  |  October 17, 2012

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

Posted by admin  |  October 16, 2012

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

Posted by admin  |  October 15, 2012

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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Video Snack: UVM’s Heather Darby Says “Eat What You Sow”

Posted by admin  |  October 12, 2012

Heather Darby is an Agronomic and Soils Specialist for the University of Vermont Extension. She received her M.S. from the University of Wisconsin in Agronomy and her Ph.D. in Crops and Soils at Oregon State University. Being raised on a … Continue reading →

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