The Vermont Agency of Agriculture has partnered with the Vermont Community Foundation to create the Vermont Farm Disaster Relief Fund, which will assist Vermont farms that sustained damage from Tropical Storm Irene. The Fund was initiated in September and has the purpose to pool contributions from donors and to provide financial assistance directly to farmers [...]
Pulled from Twitter @SevenDaysJobs Laraway Youth & Family Services Seeks Farm Steward This part-time position will assume leadership responsibility for the planning and coordination of the Laraway Youth & Family Services farm land. It will identify site opportunities and work in conjunction with the leadership of each Laraway program and our community partners to maximize [...]
Successful collaborations amongst nonprofit organizations often lead to very impressive measurable outcomes. CommonGood Vermont has been featuring collaborations from around the state of Vermont and New England to provide concrete examples on the right way to collaborate. The article below, written by Dana Hudson profiles the Vermont Food Education Every Day (FEED) program and ran [...]
Rutland Area Farm and Food Link (RAFFL) With obesity rates at an all-time high in our region and only 3-5% of food dollars being spent on local foods… there is both a driving reason and an opportunity to expand local food production to bring healthy, nutritious, delicious food choices to a growing number of people. [...]
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