Category Archives: Social

Digging In: New book from UVM faculty takes a critical look at food systems

Posted by Alison Nihart  |  February 9, 2015

UVM Extension faculty members Lisa Chase and Vern Grubinger recently co-authored Food, Farms, and Community: Exploring Food Systems. In this post, we ask them about the writing experience and what they hope readers will glean from the book. Lisa Chase will be at Phoenix Books … Continue reading →

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Transplants: The value of a garden in an uprooted life (Transplantes: El valor de un jardín en una vida desarraigada)

Posted by Guest Author  |  February 5, 2015

By the Huertas team Huerta: a kitchen garden where one can cultivate and harvest produce, herbs, and flowers Huertas is a community-based project that works with Latino(a) farm workers to plant gardens on the dairy farms where they live and work. … Continue reading →

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Cuisine in Transition

Posted by Cynthia Belliveau  |  January 27, 2015

An Interview with Julieta Salazar Robert at Villada in Oaxaca, Mexico It’s that time of year again when UVM’s Oaxaca Study Abroad program starts and a curious bunch of undergraduates, from many different majors, come together to learn about Mexico’s … Continue reading →

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Breaking Free of our (Food) Chain$

Posted by Guest Author  |  January 14, 2015

By Jane Kolodinsky I consider myself lucky to have seen an advance screening of FoodChain$, a documentary from the producers of Fast Food Nation and Food, Inc., while I was at the American Public Health Meetings in New Orleans this … Continue reading →

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Keepin’ It Real

Posted by Cynthia Belliveau  |  January 7, 2015

Yesterday I went to get my snow tires put on at our local tire place. And in order for you to continue reading, I want you to know I’m aware that the errand is two months overdue. As I entered, … Continue reading →

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