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Sodexo Symposium Highlights Careers in the Vermont Food System

By Anastasia Tsekeris Vermont First recently held its first student symposium designed to celebrate and learn about farm-to-institution and the career paths within the food system. Vermont chefs, entrepreneurs, farmers, and other leaders in the field gathered in October to discuss current … Continue reading

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Students Organize Farm-to-Table Dinner to Help Others in Need

By Amanda Luchtel and Rachel Stievater The newly constructed hoop house had been transformed. Dried flower bundles and woven grapevines hung from the purlins, accentuated by strings of lights. A row of round tables covered in white cloth stretched down … Continue reading

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UVM Extension Plays Key Role in Launching International Culinary Trail

By Jeffrey Wakefield In the spring of 2017, early in his tenure as director of UVM Extension, Chuck Ross got a long voicemail message from a farmer and culinary tourism advocate in Pontiac, Quebec named David Gillespie. Did Vermont have … Continue reading

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Social Media Post Has Larger Implications for UVM Local Food Partnerships

By Anastasia Tsekeris UVM Dining has recently been on the receiving end of student social media posts about the discovery of insects in food at on-campus dining halls. On September 27, an account on Instagram posted a video in the dining hall … Continue reading

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Erica Morrell to Speak about First Food Justice Nov. 7 at UVM

By Allison Spain  Erica Morrell, PhD, a Mellon C3 Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Middlebury College, will speak at UVM on Nov. 7 about “Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of First Food Justice.”  In her talk, Erica will draw on her … Continue reading

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