Category Archives: Social

The Vermont Food System Atlas: A Clearinghouse Website to Advance our Local Food System

By Erica Campbell, the Vermont Farm to Plate Program Director The Vermont Farm to Plate Network is a statewide initiative legislatively directed to strengthen Vermont’s food system and increase local food production and consumption by 2020. It’s made up of … Continue reading

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Real Food Television (Webivision)

Kierstin Wall is a UVM student who recently started the blog Sustainabelly in her Food and Media course. I would like to introduce you all to The Perennial Plate, a weekly documentary series dedicated to adventurous sustainable eating. The series … Continue reading

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A Change of Pace for Food TV

Justin Adelman is a senior at the University of Vermont studying Public Communications. On his blog, Not So TV Dinner, he writes about how food and cooking are falsely portrayed on TV. “Cooking Up a Story” is an online TV … Continue reading

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Sheble-Hall: A Right to Know what’s in Our Food

Timothy Gillis Sheble-Hall is a senior at the University of Vermont who is studying food systems. He grew up on a sheep farm in Dover, Mass. Labeling GMOs is a policy rooted in power. The passage of such a policy … Continue reading

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UVM Students Support Farming in the City

Alison Nihart is the Assistant to the Food Systems Initiative at the University of Vermont As people continue to seek ways to connect with their food, urban agriculture has been gaining popularity in communities across North America because of the … Continue reading

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