Resources & Stories

Resources

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A Regional Approach to Food System Resilience - NEFNE Report
What will it really take to grow, raise, produce, harvest, and catch more regional food and move it through a complex supply chain to our homes and other places we...
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dairy beef farm photo
The Beef on Dairy project is a multi-year project tasked with developing stronger beef-dairy partnerships to reduce costs, increase dairy farm viability, and improve product quality to increase market access...
This document summarizes conversations and next steps related to the Racial Equity Priority Strategy Team of the Farm to Plate Network, and is meant to support further development of the...
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VSJF's Business Coaching Program Business Sense Resources
The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund’s Business Coaching Program launched Business Sense , a six-module training series for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The series provides essential tools and information resources...

Stories

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Food Security Planning - Photo Courtesy of Action Circles
We are excited and hopeful that we can make a just, implementable, concrete, and ambitious Food Security Plan that leads to food security for everyone in Vermont. This year, we...
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Milk with Dignity Hannaford Campaign
In 2020, Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund (VSJF), NOFA-VT, Rural Vermont, Food Solutions New England, and many other organizations that work to strengthen the state and region’s agricultural landscape and rural...
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Food connects equitable food buying club
Vermont is developing a food security plan. The plan will advance long-term, equitable, food security and food access by all of Vermont’s residents not only today but in times of crisis, regardless of their life circumstances. The Farm to Plate Network Food Security Strategy Team is tasked with pushing forward this priority strategy.
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The Farm to Plate team at the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund stands in solidarity with the Black and African American community in condemning the murders of and demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others. Floyd’s murder, and the protests unfolding across the country, are a stark reminder that while we have been in the throes of a health crisis these past three months, the crises of racism, racial inequality, and white supremacy have embroiled our nation’s entire history and continue to live with us today.