Category Archives: Environmental

Food in Vermont: Weekly Events, 10/25-10/31

Thursday (Oct 25) Free Pick-your-own Concord Grapes Joan Gilbert of North Fayston has a grapevine arbor full of sweet, juicy Concord grapes ripe for the plucking now and some horseradish for digging! All day. 1702 Center Fayston Road. North Fayston. … Continue reading

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Resilience and Sustainability in the Food System

Resilience and sustainability are complementary, essential attributes of a healthy food system. One addresses relatively short-term responses to disturbances and the other addresses holistic management for long term stability. There’s no bright line between these two concepts but they aren’t … Continue reading

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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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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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