Resources & Stories

Resources

Northeast Farms of Color Land Trust
Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust brings together a diverse skill sets in Cooperative Development, Climate Justice, Food and Land Sovereignty, Farming, Education, Herbalism, and Indigenous and Disaporic ways of honoring the land to build a land trust with clarity of focus, intentionality, and lived experience that centers the voices of QTBIPOC Farmers, Land Stewards, and Earth Workers.
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Clemmons Family Farm
The Clemmons Family Farm is one of the largest African-American-owned historic farms in Vermont today.
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Vermont Food System Plan Issue Brief: Water Quality
Our challenge is to find a path forward in Vermont agriculture that allows for food production while protecting water quality. Agriculture dominates Vermont’s working landscape in many parts of the...
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Vermont Food System Plan Issue Brief: Supporting Future Farmers
Vermont is facing a dramatic shift in the agricultural sector due to economic and demographic changes. The key to the maintenance and development of the farms that form the backbone...
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Stories

Pastured Poultry in Aisle 9
Two small-scale poultry slaughterhouses—the first of their kind in Vermont—are allowing pastured Vermont chicken to be sold in stores, for the first time in years.
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Mad River Food Hub
White walls and stainless steel sinks and industrial-sized freezers and workers in smocks may not form our image of “local food.” But if Vermont agriculture and food production are to remain viable, places like the Mad River Food Hub might become increasingly necessary.
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Brown trout thrive on Mountain Foot Farm
On a sunny spring day earlier this year, hundreds of brown trout were swimming in their large tanks on Curtis Sjolander’s Mountain Foot Farm in Wheelock.
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Monument Farms Dairy
Monument Farms Dairy began in 1930 as a home delivery route run by Richard and Marjory James in the Weybridge area.
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