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2018 Farm to Plate Annual Report
Since 2010 purchases of local food in Vermont have increased by $176 million to $310 million in total (13.9% of total food and beverage sales); 6,559 net new jobs and 742 net new businesses have been created; and the percentage of food insecure Vermont households has dropped to 9.8% from 13.2%.
A 2018 Exploration of the Future of Vermont Agriculture: Ideas to Seed a Conversation and a Call to Action
An assessment of how to respond to ongoing negative trends in Vermont agriculture.
Charting a Path: Food System Workforce Needs Assessment
This study gives 10 recommendations to better align Vermont's food system education with the needs of today's farm and food businesses.
Exploring Food System Careers
A guidebook on the wide range of careers within our food system and potential next steps for pursuing those careers.
Exploring the Next Frontier: Increasing Local Food Sales at Vermont's Independent Retailers
This report provides an understanding of the kinds of products independent grocery stores currently sell and what real and perceived barriers exist to selling more or different products at independent grocery stores.
Farmland Investment Model Report
This report shares the findings, analyses and commentary of the second phase of a project conducted by Land For Good…
Food System Career Profiles and Pathways (2016)
Created by students piloting curriculum developed by the Career Image and Pathways Task Force, these 12 profiles highlight key skills and experiences useful for the career paths profiled.
Gathering the Herd: Vermont Meat Processing Case Study
Gathering the Herd captures lessons learned over a three year period from by the Farm to Plate Meat Processing Task…
Local Planning for Food Access
This toolkit focuses on improving food access through municipal and regional plans.There are a wide variety of ways to address food access in plans in conjunction with other issues of concern to communities, such as economic development, transportation, and much more. This resource includes information on the planning process, explores the way that food access relates to other topics that are already being addressed through local planning, provides suggested strategies to include and advice on how to select the most appropriate, and presents successful examples from around the state.
Seeding the Future with Convertible Debt: A Financing Case Study of High Mowing Organic Seeds
The first financing case study, Seeding the Future With Convertible Debt, focuses on High Mowing Organic Seeds--a producer of more than 600 varieties of vegetable, fruit, herb, and flower seed that employs more than 40 people in Wolcott--and convertible debt.
Vermont Food and Health Program Inventory
This document, prepared by the Health Cross-Cutting Team, presents a sampling of the wide variety of programs across Vermont that address the intersection of food and health, from community-based nutrition education programs, to a hospital supporting a community cold storage facility.
Vermont Dairy and Water Collaborative - A Call to Action
Over the past year, 22 citizen-leaders have worked together to learn, to articulate a shared vision and goals, and to call upon Vermonters to act in the face of the crisis in dairy and in water quality.
