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"A Reading List For Learning About Anti-Black Racism and Food"

Violence and injustice meet Black people in every sector of life; the food and cooking arenas are not exempt. Black people experience racism and exploitation on farms, in restaurants, and in grocery stores. This racism is systematic, ingrained in centuries of discrimination and disempowerment.

Champlain Area NAACP

The mission of the Champlain Area National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.

Strafford Creamery

Strafford Creamery produces certified organic milk and ice cream in Strafford, Vermont.

Reparations in the Northeast

The food system was built on the stolen land and stolen labor of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and people of color. Members of the Northeast Farmers of Color Network are claiming our sovereignty and calling for reparations of land and resources so that we can grow nourishing food and distribute it in our communities.

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The Challenges of Sourcing Locally

Many of the restaurants in Vermont face the same challenges I do when it comes to sourcing local food: it is more work; it is more expensive; it is not always a consistent supply or quality.

Planting a LiLi

The LiLi—a new kind of HTST (high-temperature, short-time) pasteurizer from Bob-White Systems—could lead to a better day for dairy farm families, allowing them to sell non-homogenized, gently pasteurized milk to consumers who want farm-fresh milk but don’t necessarily want raw milk.

Complex Dough

Bread & Butter Farm worked with a patchwork quilt of funding sources to keep land conserved for agriculture.

Solar Energy on a Dairy Barn

The vision of Vermont Creamery co-founders, Bob Reese and Allison Hooper, is for the new Ayers Brook Goat Dairy to serve as a catalyst for growing Vermont’s goat dairy industry.