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Vermont Food System Plan Product Brief: Specialty Foods
Vermont specialty foods are an important subset of the state’s overall value-added product market. Food manufacturing is the second-largest manufacturing industry in Vermont, with $3 billion in economic output. Specialty...
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Vermont Food System Plan Product Brief: Meat: Slaughter, Processing, and Products
It is critical to support Vermont’s slaughter and processing industries in order for Vermont’s 3,6001 livestock and 256 poultry producers to meet consumer demand in local and regional markets. Slaughter...
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local food display at middlebury natural foods coop
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Stories

Set the Table with Local Oils
Full Sun Company, a Middlebury-based business is offering culinary, Vermont-made sunflower and canola oils produced partially from Vermont-grown seed.
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All Hands on Deck
At the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor, some of the inmates are engaging in a different line of work: gathering, cleaning, and packing vegetables for food-insecure Vermonters.
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Little Village Moves from Recovery to Growth
You know things are moving in the right direction when you see a farmer whose fields were completely underwater a few years ago going on to invest for growth in their business.
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Agricultural Land Use Planning Modules
A series of 5 agricultural land use planning modules covering food system planning, farmland conservation, farmland and taxes, and local and state regulations.
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