While growing up on a farm in the small town of Chelsea, Terry Bradshaw learned from a young age the value of expertise and outreach.
To help keep his family’s farm running smoothly, his parents often asked state and regional agriculture officials for guidance on a variety of farming issues. That support system gave the UVM alumnus a foundation for his career as a tree fruit and viticulture specialist and UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences research associate and professor.
UVM senior Rose Thackeray walked behind the Price Chopper on Shelburne Road and stuffed her canvas bag with an assortment of produce: cucumber, celeriac, onions, broccoli rabe, apples, bananas, potatoes, green pepper and a lemon.
In an interview with Seven Days, Thackeray talks about the practice of dumpster diving and retrieving food from the supermarket chain’s compost containers.
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By Hailey Grohman
These days, avid readers or eaters can find a book of cultural history for nearly any item they might find on their plate. Most of these stories hit the same themes: the pre-colonial origin story of a foodstuff, the massive migration of people and products in the Columbian exchange, the Industrial Revolution, and other touchstones of food history.
Jeffrey Roberts’ Salted & Cured, a journey into the world of cured meats, is no exception. It is, however, among the most thorough and well-researched of those histories, and one which best exemplifies the connection between people, place, and product.
Annie Hopper never considered farming as a career. The Houston native, who studied conservation biology at Middlebury College, was going about her life pursuing a profession in science while interning for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency in Washington, D.C. But something felt off. Her heart wasn’t in it and she longed to be back in Vermont.
By Laura Hardie
Soil health is crucial to the health of our water and food supply, especially as our global population is expected to grow to 9 billion by 2050.
There are lots of environmental groups who work tirelessly to save our soil and water. When you think about these groups, you may not think of dairy farmers. Still, farmers are major conservationists.
While there are skeptics out there who think dairy farmers only care about their bottom line, that’s simply not true. Dairy farmers live on the land they farm. They understand the importance of protecting our natural resources.
