Resources & Stories

Resources

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Food Security Objective A2
Accelerate the permanent conservation of Vermont’s agricultural lands as working farms Although 21.6% of Vermont’s agricultural land is now conserved, the remainder is at risk of being lost, potentially permanently...
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Food Security Objective A1
Provide direct, easy-to-access financial support to farmers who provide essential services to Vermont Vermont’s farmers are essential workers, whose services to Vermont residents encompass food production as well as ecological...
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Food Security Objective G8
Utilize the health care system to identify and alleviate food insecurity Vermonters without food security also report significantly poorer mental health, physical health, and general health. The health care system...
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Food ecurity Objective G7
Make impactful investments in transportation in rural and urban Vermont Among the barriers that threaten food access for different communities in Vermont, transportation-related barriers are significant.

Stories

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The Farm to Plate Agricultural Literacy Priority Strategy Team is excited to announce the release of a new report that seeks to answer important questions: What is agricultural literacy? Why...
We are in the final weeks of writing the Vermont Food Security Plan. The Plan maps out the path to our goal: by 2035, all people in Vermont will be...
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Flag Hill Farm_Agforestry
Each month, Farm to Plate will be featuring stories of Vermont farmers using agroforestry related practices. These stories and related mapping project were created by recent UVM Food System's graduate...
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Testimony at the state house
The 2023 legislative session was a busy and exciting year on many levels - the legislature returned to a full in-person session for the first time since 2019 (2020 had...