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VT Community Loan Fund Lends Almost $2.8 Million to VT Businesses, Farms & Food Entrepreneurs, Affordable Housing Developers and Early Care & Learning Programs in 2nd Quarter 2019
Road to Success: My Favorite Things Food Truck Jeffersonville food entrepreneur Lea Ann Macrery has never lacked for drive. Now, thanks to financing from the Vermont Community Loan Fund, her new business, My Favorite Things Food Truck, is ready to hit the road. Read More
Technical Assistance and Training Available to Vermont’s Composters
Participants in this day-long workshop will receive a Compost Operator Certificate, which meets the requirements of ANR for small, medium, and large compost facility site operators. Read More
Vital Communities Seeks Proposals from Social Enterprises for Community-Based Crowdfunding Program
Vital Communities invites emerging and established social enterprises to submit project proposals to The Local Crowd (TLC) Upper Valley, a new community-based crowdfunding program. Proposals are due by September 4. Details are available at vitalcommunities.org/tlc. Read More
Ready to Grow Your Food Biz?
Are you a woman-owned food business? Already making revenue of at least $50K/year? Want to create jobs, generate increased revenue, or take on more contracts in the Burlington area? Apply TODAY for Power Forward! This (FREE) 13-week strategic growth planning course with Center for Women & Enterprise VT will help you gain the knowledge, skills, resources, and networks to explore new markets and overcome barriers to growth. Read More
New On-Farm Slaughter provisions are in effect!
Rural Vermont’s top priority for the 2019 legislative session was to remove the July 1, 2019 sunset of the on-farm-slaughter law and to make meaningful improvements to the law. We did it! The new law is effective since July 1st 2019, and extends the sunset to July 2023, allows farmers to sell live animals raised on their farm to more than one person, and allows carcasses to be halved and quartered at the time of slaughter. Learn what you need to know to take advantage of the new law - along with how we can help YOU and how you can help US: On-Farm Slaughter Factsheet (www.ruralvermont.org/s/onfarmslaughter-final-factsheet.pdf) Read More
More Than 1,200 Visit Historic Sprague Ranch for Breakfast & Dairy Farm Tour
On Saturday, July 27th, more than 1,200 visitors gathered at the Sprague Ranch in Brookfield. The central Vermont dairy farm was packed as guests enjoyed a Vermont-inspired pancake breakfast and took a self-guided tour of the 600 cow dairy farm. In its fifth year, Vermont Breakfast on the Farm aims to connect the public with hard-working dairy farming families like the Sprague’s – who have been producing wholesome dairy, caring for their cows, and protecting and maintaining the working-landscapes of Vermont, for more than 150 years. Read More
The Doctor Is In: ACORN’s First Farmacy Deliveries a Success
Addison County’s very first food-based prescription program, Farmacy, launched on July 10th. The Farmacy Program, a collaboration of ACORN, the Vermont Department of Health, Bristol’s Mountain Health Center, Middlebury’s UVM Porter Medical Center and three local farmers, enables doctors to prescribe fruits and vegetables as medicine to patients with chronic or nutrition-related illnesses. Read More
Food Connects to Build New Cooler and Freezer
Food Connects is set to begin construction of their 1,200 square-foot cooler and freezer space in mid-August. The expanded operational space triples the available volume of cold and frozen storage space available to Food Connects to aggregate and distribute local foods. Read More
Seminar Series Teaches Cooking With Wild Game
Our streams, lakes and woods are teeming with high-quality, local food that is rooted in the Vermont’s heritage – as long as one knows how to cook it! That’s why the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is partnering with Rooted in Vermont, a program of the Vermont Farm-to-Plate Network, for a “Field-to-Fork: Wild Food Cooking Series” this July and August to help Vermonters learn more about what game foods are available all around them and how to make them into a delicious meal. Read More
12th Annual Tour de Farms Bike Ride through Charlotte, Ferrisburgh and Vergennes
The 2019 Tour Features Two Routes and Finishes at Eat on the Green Read More
Food Connects Welcomes New Sales Manager
Food Connects is excited to welcome Julicia Myers to their team as their Food Hub Sales Manager. Read More
Kids Learn to Love Local Food with Power of Produce Clubs
13 Upper Valley Farmers’ Markets Offer Fun Activities, Free Market Money for Kids Ages 5-12 Read More
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