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Notes from December Food Access CCT meeting
Resources
End caps & impulse displays are used to promote new products, feature Vermont, seasonal and popular items while providing customers with value propositions.
This document, prepared by the Health Cross-Cutting Team, presents a sampling of the wide variety of programs across Vermont that address the intersection of food and health, from community-based nutrition education programs, to a hospital supporting a community cold storage facility.
Since 2010 purchases of local food in Vermont have increased by $176 million to $310 million in total (13.9% of total food and beverage sales); 6,559 net new jobs and 742 net new businesses have been created; and the percentage of food insecure Vermont households has dropped to 9.8% from 13.2%.