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Urban Ag in Vermont? Why not? Learn more about USDA grants for project planning and implementation during a June 3 webinar and submit proposals by the July 6 deadline.

Thanks to a generous $10,000 grant from the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, GMFTS's food hub, Green Mountain Farm Direct, will now be able to purchase, process, and deliver healthy, locally produced foods for food pantries in Canaan, St. Johnsbury, Island Pond, and Newport. This will help fight growing food insecurity in the Northeast Kingdom, while simultaneously supporting local farmers that have lost access to markets.

Helping Hannaford Career Center Raise $3,900

A free website to promote your business both in and out of state.

The tenth annual Slow Living Summit has been reimagined as a virtual conference.

Presented by Strolling of the Heifers and Windham Grows, the Summit’s theme is “Take a Bite Out of Climate Change” with live keynote presentations by Bill McKibben, Frances Moore Lappé, Tom Newmark and Sandra Steingraber.

City Market, Onion River Co-op is accepting applications for their 2020 Co-op Seedling Grant Cycle. They're awarding $35,000 to organizations working to strengthen the local food system.

A collaboration between Food Connects, Foodworks, the Vermont Foodbank, the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union is working hard to feed families in their community.

This first-of-its-kind, online tool will connect local communities focused on ecological thinking and action

Strong Connection to Job Losses

Food Connects successfully completed their “Growing Local Food Markets in the Monadnock Region” campaign. This campaign, run through the Local Crowd Monadnock, focused on improving the Food Connects Food Hub’s internal infrastructure to expand market access for their local farmers and food producers.