Category Archives: Social

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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What the SNAP Challenge Taught Me

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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Aiken Lecture 2012: Feeding 9 Million, Maintaining the Planet

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”

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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How Existing Policy Limits Our Ability to Make Change

Guest blog post from Lynn Blevins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Lynn is trained as a field epidemiologist through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). She worked at CDC … Continue reading

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