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2019 Farm to Plate Annual Report
Featured highlights include grass-fed beef industry development, local planning for food access, wholesale markets, small-scale on-farm composting, Rooted in Vermont inventive partnerships, supporting the future of Vermont’s dairy sector, and a Census of Agriculture snapshot.
Vermont Agriculture and Food System Plan 2020
Section 1 of Act 83 (S.160), an act relating to agricultural development, calls for the development of this report with recommendations to stabilize and revitalize Vermont’s agricultural industry.
Food System Financing Inventory
A listing of capital providers who help to finance farm and food businesses, including debt, equity, and royalty financing, as well as various grant programs.
Local Planning for Food Access
This toolkit focuses on improving food access through municipal and regional plans. It 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 presents successful examples from around the state.
Food Access Self Assessment
There are many approaches to addressing the problems of hunger and food insecurity, including hunger awareness, hunger relief, food justice, right to food, and food sovereignty. This toolkit helps individuals, communities, businesses, and organizations explore how their activities support improving food access, and how they can adapt their work or partner with organizations that use other approaches.
Local Food Wholesale Market Assessment
The report examines local food trends, provides tools and insights into how wholesale operates for producers and gives the broader food system community a greater understanding of how trends are impacting, supporting, and altering the viability, sustainability, and make-up of our local food system.
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.
Counting Local Food Consumption: Longitudinal Data and Lessons from Vermont
This article provides a look into counting local food consumption, including many lessons learned. Recently published in JAFSCD, it outlines the methods to count progress and learnings from a multi-year effort by Vermont Farm to Plate.
Distribution Options Financial Decision Making Tool
This Excel workbook is a financial tool created to aid decision making around the various distribution options.
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…
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.
