Registration now open for Northeast Kingdom Food System Summit!
The Northeast Kingdom Food System Plan Summit is scheduled for Saturday, March 26 at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common. The daylong Summit will review the changes in our local food system in the past 5 years and engage attendees around specific goals to help set priorities for the future. The Summit will include topics on distribution and aggregation of local products, farmland access, economic and community development, as well as food access and justice. The Summit will feed into an update of the Northeast Kingdom Food System Plan, originally written in 2011.
Read More Working Lands Enterprise Board Releases Annual Report Demonstrating Cumulative Impacts
Since its inception in 2012, the Working Lands Enterprise Board (WLEB) has invested over $3.1 million dollars in 112 projects impacting every county of the state, leveraging just under $5 million in additional funds. Impacts to date include 106 new jobs created by working lands grantees and $12 million+ increase in gross income across all working lands grantees
Read More Secretaries of Agriculture, Natural Resources Submit Joint Interim Report on Subsurface Agricultural Tile Drainage
Vermont’s Secretary of Agriculture, Chuck Ross, and Vermont’s Secretary of Natural Resources, Deb Markowitz, jointly submitted the interim report on subsurface agricultural tile drainage to the Vermont General Assembly. The Subsurface Tile Drainage Interim Report is a summary of the progress the two agencies have made in preparing a final report on tile drainage, which is due to the Legislature in January, 2017. The interim report is available today on the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM) website
Read More Farm to School Awareness Day Celebrated at Statehouse
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets, in partnership with the Vermont Farm to School Network, announced the recipients of the 2016 Vermont Farm to School grant awards at a special ceremony in the Statehouse cafeteria last Wednesday.
Read More Sterling College Claims #1 for Real Food on Campus for Second Year in a Row
For the second consecutive year , Sterling College has been confirmed as the top college in the United States that serves food on campus that is local, sustainable, humane, and fair-trade.
Read More VSECU Announces Support of Milk Money L3C to Foster Local Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Partnership marks the first initiative under VSECU’s newly launched vision, focused on maximizing the credit union’s social, environmental and financial impact throughout Vermont
Read More New Website and Video Highlight the Economic Impact of the VT Dairy Industry
The Vermont Dairy Promotion Council and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets have partnered to launch a new website and video highlighting the economic impact of the state’s dairy industry.
Read More Commmunity Kitchen Academy - Culinary Job Training Program
Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) in Burlington is currently accepting applications for student enrollment in its successful culinary job training program.
Read More Vermont Dairy Co-op First to Adopt New Technology to Improve Value of Milk & Farm Management Practices
The St. Albans Cooperative Creamery is the first dairy co-op in the nation to provide new information to farmers about the fatty acids that make up the milk fat in their cow’s milk. Local researchers found a direct correlation between the fat content in milk and farm management practices – this information will allow farmers to improve the way they feed and manage their cows as well as earn a higher pay for their milk.
Read More Strolling of the Heifers announces Slow Living Summit conference on food & agriculture entrepreneurship
Strolling of the Heifers announces the sixth annual Slow Living Summit conference, an exploration of entrepreneurship in the food and agriculture sector, taking place in Brattleboro, Vermont, April 28-30.
Read More Rural Vermont Announces New Logo - Check it out!
Former Rural Vermont Board Member Ben Hewitt talks about the "frustrating and gratifying, dispiriting and joyful" process that ultimately led to Rural Vermont's new look and identity that he describes as "a beautiful and delightfully feisty new logo, along with a new tagline that we believe sums up our work quite nicely... It’s simple, really, just six words. But we think it says a lot."
Read More Sodexo Vermont First Model Spreads to Maine
A core goal of Sodexo's Vermont First commitment is to create a local food strategic purchasing model that can be replicated in other states and regions. Just under a year since Annie Rowell began as the Vermont First Coordinator, we are excited to see the model taking hold in a fellow New England state – Maine. Below is the recent announcement about the hire of the new Maine Course Director, Maeve McInnis. Annie is looking forward to working closely with her new Maine counterpart to continue to build a robust and innovative local purchasing model. Maeve will be responsible for implementing this initiative throughout the Maine college system, which was recently awarded to Sodexo.
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