Milton Kids Return to Harvest Garden With First Lady!
Milton Elementary school fifth-graders returned to the White House Tuesday to finish their work.
Read More H.515 Refines On-Farm Slaughtering Rules
New law permits on-farm outdoor slaughter without a custom facility, but with regulated conditions, for 10 swine, three cattle, 25 sheep or goats, or any combination that does not exceed 3,500 pounds of live weight of livestock.
Read More Hartland Farmers Featured in New York Times
Hartland farmers Stephan Leslie and Kerry Gawalt (Cedar Mountain Farm) and their Fjords--Cassima and Tristan--were featured in the New York Times!
Read More Seeking Food Ingredients That Aren’t Gene-Altered
Food companies big and small are struggling to replace genetically modified ingredients with conventional ones.
Read More Food Bank Kitchen Academy Combines Food Rescue and Job Training
Vermont Foodbank program utilizes highly perishable donated food products as learning tools for students enrolled in its Community Kitchen Academy to make meals distributed via food assistance programs.
Read More Finding Your Place in Central Vermont's Food System
More than 80 farmers, food processors, educators, nutritionists, planners, advocates, home gardeners, and consumers shared a meal of local foods and identified critical action steps for six focus areas within the Central Vermont food system.
Read More Epicurious Loves Vermont!
Check out the 12 reasons Epicurious loves Vermont local food
Read More Local Foods Measurement Article by UVM CDAE and VSJF Published in Peer-Reviewed Journal
An article that summarizes a first effort to measure local food purchases was published in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.
Read More Taste of Vermont in Nation's Capitol
Every year, dozens of Vermont food producers offer samples of their products to our nation's lawmakers.
Read More Vermont Featured as Case Study in Meat Processing Report
Vermont's F2P Meat Processing Task Force is featured as a case study in a recent report by the Niche Meat Processors Assistance Network.
Read More 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.
Read More 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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