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Vermont Food Service Companies Double "Harvest of the Month" Schools
Major Vermont food service companies are embracing the newest Farm-to-School initiative ("Harvest of the Month") and the number of students and communities that are benefiting just doubled as a result. VISUAL: Attached map of current schools and communities in HOM. Interactive map online at goo.gl/Kab4dm
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Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) accepting applications
The next session begins December 6th. To apply click here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/CKAburlington
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Ground Work: Effective Strategies for Teaching Tractor Skills and Farm Mechanization Decision-Making
Apply by Dec. 20 to participate in this new professional development (train-the-trainer) program.
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Strolling of the Heifers acquires River Garden, announces plans for Farm/Food Education Center
We imagine the River Garden, a few years after we assume stewardship, becoming widely known as a destination — as a place for discovery. People will come here to learn about Vermont’s agricultural legacy, its current agricultural economy, and its agricultural future.
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Caledonia Spirits Wins Gold and 2013 Gin of the Year at International Wine and Spirits Competition
Vermont’s own Caledonia Spirits impressed the judges at the sixth annual International Wine and Spirits Competition in Hong Kong, walking away with 2013 Gin of the Year and a Gold Medal for Barr Hill Gin.
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The Vermont Dairy Industry Association seeks nominations for the 2013 John C. Finley Award.
The Vermont Dairy Industry Association will award the 2013 John C. Finley Award at the Dairy Farmers’ Banquet at the Vermont Farm Show on Thursday, January 30, 2014. Nominations are due Friday, November 15!
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New Consortium Will Make Vermont a Global Center of Food Systems Education
Higher Ed Institutions Agree “Vermont is our Campus”: The Consortium will strengthen Vermont’s place as a world-renowned center for food systems education, research, and outreach and will expand offerings in food systems education at and among the member institutions.
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Agri-Food Entrepreneurship Survey Deadline Extended
If you run a business and are in any way working with food in Vermont, UVM wants to hear from you! The results of the survey will be used to improve education opportunities for current entrepreneurs as well as to create new courses or revise existing courses at UVM in order to train the next generations of agri-food entrepreneurs.
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Farmers To You Launches Video Series
This is Farmers To You - Watch the first of an ongoing video series profiling Farmers To You, their partner farmers, and partner families. In this video you'll see clips from Jasper Hill Farm, Champlain Orchards, Rhapsody Natural Foods, Champlain Orchards, Fat Toad Farm, Red Wagon Plants, Red Hen Baking Co., Vermont Salumi, Square Deal Farm, Pete's Greens, Rockville Market Farm, and many more....
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You Can Help Manage Vermont’s Farm Surplus to Reduce Our Dependency on Food from Afar
Salvation Farms needs your help to expand our Vermont Commodity Program work at the Southeast State Correctional Facility, where we work side by side with an inmate crew to clean and pack surplus farm-fresh foods that would otherwise go to waste.
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Farmers To You Expands Home Delivery to Outer Boston
DELIVERING LOCAL FOOD DIRECT TO HOMES IN THE BOSTON SUBURBS Farmers To You expands home delivery in outer Boston and makes it easy to eat local food year round.
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Farm to Plate highlights progress strengthening Vermont’s food system in processing, distribution and education
More than 250 food and farm constituents attend, evaluate and plan work moving forward at annual event marking beginning of year three implementing Vermont’s ten year Farm to Plate Strategic Plan
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