Resources & Stories

Resources

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Food Security Roadmap Priority Strategy Team testifies to VT Legislature
Are you interested in discussing the Vermont Food Security Roadmap with a small group at work or home? The attached Discussion Guide offers simple ideas for conversation about the Roadmap's...
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VT Cattleman how we work
The Beef on Dairy project is a multi-year project tasked with developing stronger beef-dairy partnerships to reduce costs, increase dairy farm viability, and improve product quality to increase market access...
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Food Security Objective C3
Improve local food access while working on full food security in Vermont True food security will mean that individuals do not have to rely on charity. In the interim, improvements...
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Food Security Objective C2
Expand local collaboration for effective delivery of daily and emergency food security resources Vermont has the opportunity to design an excellent food security emergency response system using recent lessons learned...

Resource Collections

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A Regional Approach to Food System Resilience - NEFNE Report
What will it really take to grow, raise, produce, harvest, and catch more regional food and move it through a complex supply chain to our homes and other places we...
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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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Sustaining agriculture cover
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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Food Security - Hummus
Vermont has the tools, knowledge, and resources to create food security and ensure that every person living here has the food they want and need to be healthy and nourished...
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Holstein Beef
VSJF continues to provide important leadership for the New England Food System Planners Partnership, a collaboration between seven state-level organizations, six state agricultural, economic and environmental department representatives and Food...
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Trencher's Farmhouse Greenhouse. Photo by Erica Houskeeper.
Because agricultural activity exists in every county of the state, in both rural communities and our more urban centers, we all have a stake in our ability to produce more...
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ACORN STAFF AND volunteers dole out shares of produce at a July 11 distribution day for the Farmacy: Food is Medicine program. Through the program community members receive prescriptions from their health care provider or other referrals to receive free shares of locally grown fruits and vegetables. Independent photo/Marin Howell
Story and photo by Marin Howell, Addison County Independent ACORN's Farmacy: Food is Medicine program in Middlebury is making a real difference for 100 local families by providing weekly shares...