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Vermont Farm & Forest Viability Program

vhcb.org/viability.html
elaREMOVETHISBEFORESENDING@vhcb.org
(802) 828-2117
VT Housing & Conservation Board 58 East State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602

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The Vermont Farm & Forest Viability Program, in its 15th year, works with a network of non-profit partners and independent consultants to provide high-quality business planning, technical assistance and management coaching services to eligible farm, food and forestry sector enterprises. The VFFVP also runs a business plan implementation grants program, and in all serves approximately 100 agricultural businesses each year.

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Name	Title	Email	Phone
Liz Gleason	Program Assistant	lizREMOVETHISBEFORESENDING@vhcb.org	(802) 828-3370
Show Bio Liz has worked for the Vermont Farm Viability Program since 2010, coordinating business planning, grants, and program evaluation. She has a BA in Political Science and Environmental Studies from Williams College, and fills her free time trail running, baking, and rock climbing.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vermont-Housing-Conservation-Board/252233471529131 Network Groups: Production and Processing, Meat Processing, Aggregation and Distribution, Farmland Access and Stewardship
Ela Chapin	Viability Program Director	elaREMOVETHISBEFORESENDING@vhcb.org	(802) 828-2117
Show Bio Ela Chapin is Director of the Vermont Farm & Forest Viability Program, a program of the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board that provides business planning and technical assistance to farm, food and forest products businesses. Since 2006, Ela has managed and advanced the quality of program services and provided professional development opportunities to strengthen the network of agricultural service providers in Vermont and beyond. She has a MA in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.
https://www.facebook.com/farmviability http://jumpfda.kintera.org/faf/login/participantStats.asp?ievent=1036365&lis=0&kntae1036365=65F91FBD9A0F4469B3615CFBF5BCB429# Network Groups: Production and Processing, Meat Processing, Producer and Processor Association Support, Technical Assistance Coordination, Dairy Professional Development, Farm to Institution, Financing, Slow Money Vermont, Farm Viability Indicators Task Force

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business planning, feasibility analysis, financial planning, market analysis, transfer planning, technical assistance, sale of development rights

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Building Brands in Small Farm Food System

A new call-out to “scale up brands,” not farms, is needed to capture market opportunities and to remedy certain limitations in our small farm food system.