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Resources

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Farm to Plate Annual Report 2022 Cover Image
Featured highlights include developing the Beef on Dairy Program, expanding community-based composting, addressing food insecurity in Vermont, and other farm to plate projects on the horizon.
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As part of the development of a Food Security Action Plan in Vermont, Maple Mountain Consulting was contracted to conduct a study of transportation-related barriers to accessing healthy and local...
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As part of the development of a Vermont Food Security Plan (Priority Strategy 24), Maple Mountain Consulting was contracted to conduct research on transportation-related barriers to accessing healthy and local...
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Report: Reframing Farming: Strategies for expanding thinking about agriculture
As most of us now lack personal experience with farming, we also lack ways to understand what farming involves, who it involves, what is required to stay in business, and how it affects our environment and society as a whole.

Resource Collections

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Farm to Plate Annual Report 2022 Cover Image
By statute, the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund is required to provide to the legislature annually a: "summary of work completed in the farm-to-plate investment program, including progress toward meeting the...
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Many individuals and organizations have worked tirelessly on addressing racism broadly and specifically within the food system for decades. Let's elevate their work, galvanize support and learn.
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2021-2030 strategic plan
The Vermont Agriculture and Food System Strategic Plan and a collection of resources from its development.
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Five short easily digestible agricultural planning modules that cover land conservation, farmland and property taxes, local regulations, and state regulations.

Stories

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Carissa Brewton, RD and Co-curator of the Farm to Plate Food Security Topic Exchange Interested in learning more about food security issues? Register for the Food Security Topic Exchange by...
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Farm to Plate Annual Report 2022 Cover Image
The ability to not only withstand large systemic shocks, but to bounce back from them, is the hallmark of resiliency. But bouncing back does not necessarily mean that everything looks...
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Food Security Planning - Photo Courtesy of Action Circles
We are excited and hopeful that we can make a just, implementable, concrete, and ambitious Food Security Plan that leads to food security for everyone in Vermont. This year, we...
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Milk with Dignity Hannaford Campaign
In 2020, Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund (VSJF), NOFA-VT, Rural Vermont, Food Solutions New England, and many other organizations that work to strengthen the state and region’s agricultural landscape and rural...