Category Archives: Education

Food Hub Certificate Helps Organizations Find Their Place in the Food System

Posted by Erica Houskeeper | February 12, 2019

Ben Earle is all about using innovative approaches to solve organizational and community problems. The executive director of Feed the Need in Durham, Ontario, enrolled in UVM’s Food Hub Management Certificate Program in 2018 to help gain a deeper knowledge … Continue reading →

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UVM’s Food Hub Program Takes its Curriculum on the Road to Michigan

Posted by Erica Houskeeper | January 14, 2019

Food system experts in Michigan wanted to offer a comprehensive food hub management program without reinventing the wheel. So they turned to UVM. UVM’s Food Hub Management Professional Certificate Program is heading to Michigan in 2019 as part of a new … Continue reading →

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UVM Program Turns Local Farms into Learning Laboratories

Posted by Guest Author | December 17, 2018

By Jeffrey Wakefield Senior environmental studies major Nell Carpenter is holding court, in a friendly, peer-to-peer kind of way, with eight fellow students in her PSS 212, Advanced Agroecology class at Bread and Butter Farm in Shelburne, where the group … Continue reading →

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Social Media Post Has Larger Implications for UVM Local Food Partnerships

Posted by Guest Author | October 31, 2018

By Anastasia Tsekeris UVM Dining has recently been on the receiving end of student social media posts about the discovery of insects in food at on-campus dining halls. On September 27, an account on Instagram posted a video in the dining hall … Continue reading →

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Two Farmer Training Students Find a Future for Farming in the Northeast

Posted by Erica Houskeeper | October 18, 2018

Sid Silverman and Elisa Daus left California in search of a more sustainable way to farm. The couple arrived in Burlington in May to enroll in the UVM Farmer Training Program. Their plan was not so much to learn the basics of … Continue reading →