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5/3/19 7:30am - 4:00pm
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Healing the Past for a Healthy Future: Join the Vermont Foodbank for our keynote speaker Dr. Ken Epstein and workshops covering topics such as poverty and hunger, food systems, health, best practices and more!
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5/5/19
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Harvesting the Sun with Livestock
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5/5/19 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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Come on down to the dairy and meet our spring calves and their amazing moms in our Brown Swiss herd.
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5/6 - 10/3/19
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Join us for a unique garden education program that teaches adults how to grow their own food in a fun, supportive, and cooperative learning environment through weekly lessons and hands-on garden work. Learn to plant, cultivate, harvest and preserve produce and take home as many fresh vegetables as you can grow. Choose a morning or evening class!
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5/6/19 11:00am - 1:00pm
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Join acclaimed scientist and author Dr. Vandana Shiva as she presents an international pledge for “Poison Free Food and Farming by 2030’ to state policymakers and advocacy organizations. Policymakers and representatives from allied Vermont organizations will offer their support for poison free food and farming, while citizens sign onto the pledge in the company of Dr. Shiva.
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5/8/19 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Bring your Ideas to the Table!
Have a food-related challenge that you need some help addressing in your community or in your business?
Looking to network with other movers and shakers in the vibrant food economy?
Want feedback on a new product idea?
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5/8/19 4:30pm - 5/15/19 7:30pm
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Gardeners, educators, organizers and enthusiasts of community-based gardening: Join us for a workshop on “Growing Your Community of Gardeners” this spring at a location near you. Brainstorm solutions, share stories, and swap ideas for stronger garden communities! For a list of locations, details and registration go to http://vcgn.org/what-we-do/grow
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5/10/19 10:00am - 1:00pm
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Join Grazing Specialist Kimberly Hagen and Vermont Agency of Agriculture Development Coordinator Alex DePillis to learn to combine solar panel arrays and pastures for sheep.
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5/10/19 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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Join us for a field demonstration of equipment used for farm viability, soil health, and water quality.
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5/15/19 9:00am - 12:00pm
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Workshop sponsored by the Lamoille Economic Development Corporation and the VT Small Business Development Center
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5/15/19 10:00am - 3:00pm
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Come spend the day with Dave Pratt of Ranching For Profit Fame - learn tools that you will use for the rest of your farming life!
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5/15/19 4:30pm - 7:30pm
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Gardeners, educators, organizers and enthusiasts of community-based gardening: Join us for a workshop on “Growing Your Community of Gardeners” this spring at a location near you. Brainstorm solutions, share stories, and swap ideas for stronger garden communities! For a list of locations, details and registration go to http://vcgn.org/what-we-do/growit.
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5/16/19 10:00am - 3:00pm
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Come spend the day with Dave Pratt of Ranching For Profit Fame - learn tools that you will use for the rest of your farming life!
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5/16/19 4:30pm - 7:30pm
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Gardeners, educators, organizers and enthusiasts of community-based gardening: Join us for a workshop on “Growing Your Community of Gardeners” this spring at a location near you. Brainstorm solutions, share stories, and swap ideas for stronger garden communities! For a list of locations, details and registration go to http://vcgn.org/what-we-do/growit.
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5/16/19 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Learn how to sustainably harvest nettles and then process them into a nutrient dense nettle pesto to take home.
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5/17/19 10:00am - 1:00pm
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Join Grazing Specialist Kimberly Hagen and Vermont Agency of Agriculture Development Coordinator Alex DePillis to learn to combine solar panel arrays and pastures for sheep.
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5/18/19 8:00am - 6:30pm
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Skill-builder and networking event aimed at organizers working around social, racial and environmental justice efforts within New England.
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5/18/19 10:00am - 2:00pm
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We welcome medicinal and culinary herbs, shrubs, flowers and veggies!
Our annual plant sale and swap is a sweet event that many folks look forward to each year. It's a great chance to get your own gardens started or to thin perennials or starts out of your existing beds. Seed swapping happens, too!
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5/20 - 6/7/19
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"Highly relevant to professionals as well as nonprofessionals. You somehow managed to change my perspective on leadership, the food system, and activism, all in one course."
- Sylvia G., 2018
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5/21/19 4:30pm - 7:30pm
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Gardeners, educators, organizers and enthusiasts of community-based gardening: Join us for a workshop on “Growing Your Community of Gardeners” this spring at a location near you. Brainstorm solutions, share stories, and swap ideas for stronger garden communities! For a list of locations, details and registration go to http://vcgn.org/what-we-do/growit.
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5/22/19 9:30am - 12:00pm
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The next USDA State Technical Committee will be hosted in Colchester on May 22, 9:30 a.m.
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5/22/19 4:30pm - 7:30pm
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Gardeners, educators, organizers and enthusiasts of community-based gardening: Join us for a workshop on “Growing Your Community of Gardeners” this spring at a location near you. Brainstorm solutions, share stories, and swap ideas for stronger garden communities! For a list of locations, details and registration go to http://vcgn.org/what-we-do/growit.
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5/25/19 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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We’ll cover a little human physiology first, and then we’ll get into how our microbes feed us, protect us, communicate with us and how we can help them help us with herbs and diet. Class will finish up with a hands-on lactofermented vegetable demonstration and everyone will go home with a jar!
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5/28/19 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Come hear the stories of individual grassland birds and their young and be inspired as Vermont landowners and communities to halt the declining populations of these birds in the northeastern United States.
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5/30/19 8:00am - 3:00pm
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Seminar #4 from 1:30 - 2:15 pm will feature the Farm to Plate Network's Exploring Food System Careers: Resources to Enhance Career Pathways Development. Speakers: Advance Vermont: Roxanne Vought, McClure Foundation: Carolyn Weir, VT Farm to Plate Network: Sarah Danly. Registration is now open.
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5/30/19 4:30pm - 7:30pm
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Gardeners, educators, organizers and enthusiasts of community-based gardening: Join us for a workshop on “Growing Your Community of Gardeners” this spring at a location near you. Brainstorm solutions, share stories, and swap ideas for stronger garden communities! For a list of locations, details and registration go to http://vcgn.org/what-we-do/growit.
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5/31 - 6/1/19
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Come learn the core principles of traditional diets and explore how lifestyle and the environment in which you live impacts health.
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6/1/19 9:30am - 6/2/19 2:00pm
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A weekend of pasture management, livestock integrations, and agroforestry systems.
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