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Food Connects Launches as a New Food System Organization: Post Oil Solutions successfully develops and spins off Farm to School program
Post Oil Solutions (POS) is proud to announce the transition of the Windham County Farm to School program and related food system programming into a new organization, Food Connects. The transition better enables co-founders Richard Berkfield, Katherine Gillespie and Hanna Jenkins to expand programming consistent with Food Connects’ new mission: to cultivate healthy food and farm connections in classrooms, cafeterias and communities.
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Midwest Farmers Face Dwindling Water Resources
"Vast stretches of Texas farmland lying over the aquifer no longer support irrigation. In west-central Kansas, up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry. In many other places, there no longer is enough water to supply farmers’ peak needs during Kansas’ scorching summers."
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Vermont Socially Responsible Investment Industry Leaders Present at Slow Money Annual Gathering
Janice St. Onge of the Flex Fund and Eric Becker of Clean Yield Asset Management advise food entrepreneurs as ‘Slow Money’ experts.
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Jim Davis Joins Highfields Center for Composting
The Board of Directors and staff of the Highfields Center for Composting are thrilled to welcome our new Executive Director, Jim Davis, to the organization.
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Fantastic New Vermont Land Link Website!
Vermont Land Link makes it easy for farm properties to be posted, and for farm seekers to search through them. It is free, simple, state-wide, automated and constantly current, serving as a friendly portal for property holders and farmland seekers.
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Great Story on 4 Corners Farm in West Newbury
VTDigger features a story on 4 Corners Farm, one of the largest fruit, vegetable, and berry growers in Vermont.
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Green Mountain Coffee and Starbucks Target International Market
Vermont’s Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced an expanded partnership with Starbucks late Wednesday, signaling a desire to expand sales of Starbucks-brand coffee packs tailored for the Waterbury firm’s trademark Keurig brewers.
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Citrus Disease With No Cure Is Ravaging Florida Groves
Florida’s citrus industry is grappling with the most serious threat in its history: a bacterial disease with no cure that has infected all 32 of the state’s citrus-growing counties.
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Replanting the Rust Belt
The American food revolution has come to cities like Toledo, Cleveland, Akron and Pittsburgh.
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Gov. Shumlin announces 20 grantees of Working Lands Enterprise
Gov. Peter Shumlin, Agriculture Secretary Chuck Ross, Forest, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael Snyder and the Working Lands Enterprise Board today announced the first round of grant recipients from the “Enterprise Investment Area” of the Working Lands Enterprise Fund, with almost $220,000 awarded to 20 grantees representing sectors across agriculture, forestry and forest products.
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Undocumented Workers Seeking Driving Rights Victorious in Key House Vote
"Undocumented immigrants in Vermont won the right to drive on Tuesday, after a charged House vote ended a vigorous political push by migrant farmers and their advocates which lasted two years."
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Chicago Puts a Sticker on it
"The Windy City is about to roll out a new local food label designed to support the city’s burgeoning urban farming movement. “Chicago Grown” will soon appear on signs around the city and on stickers on fruit, veggies, herbs, and honey, and eventually on processed items in which they’re included, such as salsa, jams, and even kombucha."
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