Resources & Stories

Resources

Local Food Wholesale Market Assessment
The report examines local food trends, provides tools and insights into how wholesale operates for producers and gives the broader food system community a greater understanding of how trends are impacting, supporting, and altering the viability, sustainability, and make-up of our local food system.
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COVID-19 Impacts on Food Security and Systems: A Third Survey of Vermonters
This most recent survey of 600 Vermonters, representative on race, ethnicity and income across the state, highlight continued challenges, but also some positive outcomes.
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Governor's Commission On The Future Of Vermont Agriculture Action Plan
In 2021, Governor Phil Scott named 12 members to the Governor’s Commission on the Future of Vermont Agriculture to study and strategize how best to grow agriculture in the Green Mountain State.
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Exploring Food System Careers
A guidebook on the wide range of careers within our food system and potential next steps for pursuing those careers.
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Stories

Farm to Plate Statement of Solidarity
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.
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Feeding Kids During a Pandemic: Lamoille North School Food Director Karyl Kent
When schools closed their doors, they had less than a week to completely reimagine their distribution models and keep students fed and nourished. Vermont FEED is honored to share some voices from the frontline school nutrition programs that so many families depend on.
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Abenaki Land Link Project Sows Resiliency
The Abenaki Land Link Project, a partnership to grow food for Abenaki citizens between the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, Rooted in Vermont, a project of the Vermont Farm to Plate Network and Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) wrapped up its pilot year this fall.
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Food Justice, Racial Justice, and Covid-19: What Are Vermont’s White-Led Food Movements Doing?
How two white-led organizations are tackling food justice.
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