Resources & Stories

Resources

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A guidebook on the wide range of careers within our food system and potential next steps for pursuing those careers.
This document is the first half of a short guide on how the community food system strategies recommended in Farm to Plate resources relate to ARPA funding guidelines. This portion of the document provides a general framework for thinking about potential applicability of ARPA funding, and suggestions for how to begin identifying effective projects.
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This article provides a look into counting local food consumption, including many lessons learned. Recently published in JAFSCD, it outlines the methods to count progress and learnings from a multi-year effort by Vermont Farm to Plate.
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2021-2030 strategic plan
The Plan contains a vision for Vermont's food system in 2030, 15 strategic goals, and 34 priority strategies. It is based on a series of 54 food system product, market, and issue briefs highlighting current conditions, bottlenecks and gaps, opportunities, and recommendations.

Stories

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The summer meal site and mobile learning kitchen is reaching more youth than ever before.
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A need for a new, more inclusive conversation.
Connecting producers to customers in the northeast who value locally produced food.
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A Letter from Farm to Plate Director Jake Claro to the Vermont General Assembly and Governor Phil Scott