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Provide direct, easy-to-access financial support to farmers who provide essential services to Vermont Vermont’s farmers are essential workers, whose services to Vermont residents encompass food production as well as ecological...

Food Security Objective G8

Utilize the health care system to identify and alleviate food insecurity Vermonters without food security also report significantly poorer mental health, physical health, and general health. The health care system...

Food Security Objective G7

Make impactful investments in transportation in rural and urban Vermont Among the barriers that threaten food access for different communities in Vermont, transportation-related barriers are significant.

Food Security Objective G6

Invest in Vermont’s town and village infrastructure Maintaining and improving village infrastructure is a high-leverage area for food security and general emergency preparedness.

Resource Collections

Putting the Plan to Use Webinar Series

These recorded webinars each provide an overview of the Plan and guidance on different ways in which you can use it.

Farm to Plate Strategic Plan 2010-2020

During the 2009 legislative session, two member-based public policy organizations, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and Rural Vermont, and a number of state legislators (including Representatives Chris Bray, Will Stevens...

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Farm Transfer and Succession

A collection of resources detailing how to plan for land management, and land and business succession strategies, to ensure a smooth transition from one owner to the next.

Water Quality

A collection of resources pertaining to current water quality as well as ways for improvement.

Stories

Migrant Justice and others fight for housing, healthcare, labor rights, and higher education

Story and photos by Migrant Justice Full story on the Migrant Justice website Immigrant leaders recently returned to the Vermont State House to fight for more equitable and inclusive policies...

New England Feeding New England Project

The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund (VSJF) is providing important leadership for a new initiative called New England Feeding New England (NEFNE), aimed at increasing 30% of the food that is...

Join Farm to Plate and the FSNE Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

Farm to Plate invites you to be a partner in imagining and creating a more just, resilient and equitable food system for Vermont. Starting April 1st, we will be hosting...

January 31 Farm to Plate visit to the VT Legislature

Highlighting the 2023 Farm to Plate Annual Report

2023 was a historically hard year on Vermont farmers and food businesses. A late spring frost resulted in significant losses for fruit growers, the July floods inundated farm fields of...