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Applications for the Vermont Family Farmer of the Month Award are now open.

April 1, 2022, is the first-round funding date for Conservation Incentive Contracts (CIC), a new option available through the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP).

Students throughout Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) are celebrating diversity through their taste buds this year thanks to “Where in the World are We Eating,” a new program by Brattleboro Regional Food Service Director Ali West of Fresh Picks Cafe.

Stuffing scarecrows, painting pumpkins, cooking lunch over hot coals, and playing musical chairs… These are not your everyday school activities. But this is how the students at Westminster Center School spent the morning of October 29, when they celebrated their first Farm and Field Day.

Garden Coordinators from five Windham County Farm to School programs gathered at Guilford Central School for a “Cross-Pollination” event in late October.

The Viability Program provides grants of up to $40,000 to help Vermont farmers invest in water quality-related on-farm infrastructure. Applications are due January 21, 2022.

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Root Words is produced in the heart of Rutland County Vermont and is made possible by generous support from listeners like you. You can support Root Words by visiting us online.

Food Connects is excited to welcome Jenny Kessler to their team as their newest Farm to School Coach. Jenny will work with schools in the Windham Central Supervisory Union (WCUS) and Windham Northeast Supervisory Union (WNESU).

This grant helps Salvation Farms expand and strengthen the 2021 created Northeast Kingdom Gleaners program, an effort launched in collaboration with the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District and the Northeast Kingdom Food Cycle Coalition members. Salvation Farms has served as Vermont’s lead organization to help establish gleaning programs across Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom had been one of Vermont’s remaining region not served by gleaning.