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A fellowship of Black professionals in food & drink, promoting and supporting one another for mutual success.
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Black Urban Growers (BUGS) is an organization committed to building networks and community support for growers in both urban and rural settings. Through education and advocacy around food and farm issues, we nurture collective Black leadership to ensure we have a seat at the table.
Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust brings together a diverse skill sets in Cooperative Development, Climate Justice, Food and Land Sovereignty, Farming, Education, Herbalism, and Indigenous and Disaporic ways of honoring the land to build a land trust with clarity of focus, intentionality, and lived experience that centers the voices of QTBIPOC Farmers, Land Stewards, and Earth Workers.
The Clemmons Family Farm is one of the largest African-American-owned historic farms in Vermont today.
Stories
Two small-scale poultry slaughterhouses—the first of their kind in Vermont—are allowing pastured Vermont chicken to be sold in stores, for the first time in years.
White walls and stainless steel sinks and industrial-sized freezers and workers in smocks may not form our image of “local food.” But if Vermont agriculture and food production are to remain viable, places like the Mad River Food Hub might become increasingly necessary.
On a sunny spring day earlier this year, hundreds of brown trout were swimming in their large tanks on Curtis Sjolander’s Mountain Foot Farm in Wheelock.
Monument Farms Dairy began in 1930 as a home delivery route run by Richard and Marjory James in the Weybridge area.