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Faces of Farming: Interview with Pete of Pete’s Greens in Hardwick, Vt.

Video courtesy of Love Tomorrow Today.

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Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

Video courtesy of UVM Extension. To watch full length Across the Fence programs please visit our website, uvm.edu/extension.

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Video Snack: Melanie Cheng on Advocating for Farmers

Melanie is the founder of social enterprise FarmsReach and nonprofit Om Organics. FarmsReach started as a web-based SaaS platform to facilitate regional B-to-B food distribution, and has since evolved into farm advocacy services to help farms become more financially and … 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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Growing season: Can a farmer be cultivated in six months?

The eclectic group of students in UVM’s Farmer Training Program — comprised of engineers, financiers and recent college grads — was highlighted in this weekend’s edition of the Burlington Free Press. Here’s a taste of the article: “The program teaches … Continue reading

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