Green Thumbs at Work: Employee Garden Grant Applications Due Feb. 10th
Grants available for Vermont businesses and organizations: Looking for ways to lift employee morale and reduce stress at work? Working to improve employee wellness by promoting physical activity and healthy eating? Establish a garden at your workplace and support employee wellness!
Read More Six-part TV Series on Vermont's Local Food Movement to Air on Vermont PBS Starting January 19, 2017
Vermont PBS and The Skinny Pancake are pleased to announce The Local Motive, a new, six-part television series that explores Vermont’s Farm to Plate food system, the most comprehensive local food system plan in the country. The Local Motive will air on Vermont PBS starting Thursday, January 19, 2017.
Read More Going Beyond Borders at NOFA-VT’s 35th Annual Winter Conference
World-renowned guests from India and Cuba will deliver keynote addresses
Read More New Delivery Sites for Fresh, Local Food in Burlington and Barre
For families seeking farm-fresh, delicious local food, shopping has never been easier. Farmers To You, a Vermont-based company, combines the ease and convenience of online grocery shopping with the quality of fresh, seasonal food from the farmer’s market. They've recently launched sites in Burlington and at their headquarters in Barre.
Read More Quebec issue of Vermont's Local Banquet
We're celebrating Quebec agriculture in the latest issue of Local Banquet! Meet Vermont farmers who have forged relationships with their counterparts across the border, and read about poutine, tourtiere, and wines from the north!
Read More Vermont’s Winter Manure Spreading Ban Begins December 15th
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets’ (VAAFM) newly effective Required Agricultural Practices Rule will continue a 20-year winter management requirement for all farms: between December 15 and April 1, no manure or other agricultural wastes (compost, spoiled feed, other wastes) may be spread on fields throughout Vermont.
Read More Annual Holiday Tractor Parade Draws Big Crowds to St. Albans
The St. Albans holiday tractor parade is organized by the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, local businesses as well as the dairy farmers of northern Vermont. Organizers say the parade is a way to thank Vermont's farmers and to bring holiday cheer to the community.
Read More VCLF Cultivates Vermont Entrepreneurs With New SPROUT Deferred Loan Program
The Vermont Community Loan Fund (VCLF) has announced the launch of SPROUT, a low-interest, deferred payment loan program for working lands entrepreneurs. The new financing program was created to meet the capital needs of Vermont farms, food producers & processors, foresters, forest products businesses and others in the start-up and early stages of operations. Earlier this year, SPROUT received start-up support from the Working Lands Enterprise Board.
Read More 650 Grocery Bags of Healthy Food to Central Vermonters
On Saturday, Dec. 10, volunteers and staff from Hunger Mountain Co-op, Northfield Savings Bank, and the Vermont Foodbank packed 650 grocery bags filled with healthy food for Central Vermonters in need as part of the Co-op’s Annual Holiday Grocery Pack.
Read More New Report Shows High Demand for Fresh Produce in Vermont Food Programs
What are the needs and challenges of using fresh food within a food or meal program? Salvation Farms surveyed hundreds of these programs in Vermont to find out. With responses from over half of Vermont’s food shelves and a fifth of the state’s public schools, the report estimates that statewide, these two types of sites together have a need for more than 14 million pounds of fresh produce annually. Other types of organizations that responded included prisons, Meals on Wheels programs, and housing sites, so the annual demand statewide is likely much higher.
Read More NECI Students to Taste-test Recipes for School Meal Programs in Addison County Schools
On December 12th, student chefs from NECI will visit four Addison County public school cafeterias to cook and taste-test new recipes with elementary school students to supplement the first-of-its-kind publication, New School Cuisine: Nutritious Seasonal Recipes for School Cooks by School Cooks.
Read More Announcing the 2015-2016 FINE Network Report
Want to catch up on the progress made by the Farm to Institution New England network over the past year and a half? Check out the 2015-2016 FINE Network Report!
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