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UVM Is: Teresa Mares Studies Food Access Challenges Among Migrant Dairy Workers

Near the Vermont-Canadian border, migrant dairy workers are grappling with food insecurity and increasing anxiety. Living on the dairy farms where they are employed, undocumented migrant workers are often reluctant to go grocery shopping—or anywhere for that matter—for fear of … Continue reading

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Lisa Heldke Uses Food to Teach the Tenets of Dewey

Food is a fundamental source of meaning and value in human life. For scholar Lisa Heldke, food is also the quintessential liberal arts topic. Heldke co-teaches the UVM John Dewey Kitchen Institute with Continuing and Distance Education Dean Cynthia Belliveau every June. … Continue reading

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New UVM Study: Health Insurance Costs Threaten Farm Viability

By Jeff Wakefield UVM Communications According to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded study, lack of access to affordable health insurance is one of the most significant concerns facing American farmers, an overlooked risk factor that affects their ability to run … Continue reading

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Researcher Studies the Possibility of Growing Saffron in Vermont

Saffron is a flavorful spice largely grown thousands of miles away in the Middle East.  But that isn’t stopping a UVM researcher from testing the viability of growing saffron right here in Vermont. Dr. Margaret Skinner, a research professor at … Continue reading

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Stanford’s Organic Food Study – It’s Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks, you probably experienced the giant uproar that rippled through the organic food community after Stanford published a multi-variant study finding that there was little difference “nutritionwise” between conventional and … Continue reading

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