Resources & Stories

Resources

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Food Security Objective C2
Expand local collaboration for effective delivery of daily and emergency food security resources Vermont has the opportunity to design an excellent food security emergency response system using recent lessons learned...
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Food Security Objective C1
Integrate food access into town plans across Vermont Food access and security are impacted not only by state and federal agricultural policies, but also by local decisions in municipal and...
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Food Security Objective A4
Establish easier and equitable access to farmland and on-farm infrastructure Vermont producers must have appropriate agricultural land and infrastructure in order to succeed in business, but current and future generations...
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Food Security Objective A3
Provide essential and urgently needed investments in agricultural supply-chain infrastructure To save Vermont’s current farms, the State must immediately invest in supply chain infrastructure. This vital investment will also modernize...

Resource Collections

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A collection of resources detailing how to plan for land management, and land and business succession strategies, to ensure a smooth transition from one owner to the next.
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A collection of resources exploring the world of local food in schools, hospitals, colleges, and other institutions.
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In response to the need to help businesses better understand and navigate the variety of financing options available to them, the Financing Cross-Cutting Team of the Farm to Plate Network created a series of case studies on convertible debt, farmland financing, and royalty financing.
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A set of "how to’s" and "best practices" for creating successful agritourism enterprises.

Stories

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SunriseFarm_Compost
Attention agricultural service providers, farmers and community partners! Are you interested in learning more or providing input on on-farm composting? Farm to Plate's Food Cycle Community of Practice wants your...
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GlennEvans_2023Gathering
Support Still Needed for Recently Established Center for Agriculture and Food Entrepreneurship (CAFE) at VTSU-Randolph. Applied agricultural and food system education is critical to the future of agriculture and food...
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Intervale Agroforestry1 - Michael Z. Weiss
Agroforestry is a rapidly growing climate mitigation strategy that brings together indigenous knowledge with modern day farmers looking for ways to enhance production and sustainability. Although there are an increasing...
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Eleven Acre Farm
By Sydney Blume 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...