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Peggy Newfield of Newfield Herb Farm meets with Senator Douglass in the Vermont State House cafeteria to urge his support for the Farm Security Fund
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New Farm Security Fund Gains Unanimous Senate Support
March 24, 2025 We're thrilled to announce that on Thursday, March 20, the Vermont Senate...
Kagen and Elise of Blackbird Organics pictured with their crew and their dogs around a truckload of freshly harvested onions
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Meet our 2025 Soil Stewards
March 21, 2025 The Jack Lazor Memorial Soil Stewards program is a cohort-based program that...
a close-up of a tap in a maple tree connected to tubing for the purpose of extracting the maple sap to make maple syrup
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Isn’t All Maple Syrup Organic?
March 6, 2025 Whether or not it is organic, maple syrup is made by collecting...
A farmer holds freshly uprooted plants showing the healthy soil and root system
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Federal Funding Uncertainty: What it Means for Vermont’s Farms
February 27, 2025 We’re roughly a month out from the release of the executive orders...
Misse Axelrod of the Farm & Forest Day School at Drift Farmstead stands proudly with a sign reading "This Farm Feeds Vermont Kids"
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Growing Connections: Stories from the Agricultural Educators Cohort
January 15, 2025 In Vermont, where the connections between land, food, and community are deeply...
The outgoing Soil Stewards Cohort held a wrap party at Footprint Farm in October of 2024
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Becoming Soil Stewards
January 10, 2025 NOFA-VT’s Farmer Services team provides a great deal of direct services to...
white puzzle pieces partially snapped together over a backdrop of US currency
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Government Budget Update
December 19, 2024 Antonio Tovar, National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) Senior Policy Associate, and Liam...
Two people stand amongst chickens
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A Resilient Vermont Depends on Small-Scale, Organic Farmers
December 19, 2024 Our names are Justin and Vanessa and we’re the co-owners of Leaping...
Journey Farmer Laura Xiao of By Hand Farm in Newfane
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Meet our 2024- 2025 Journey Farmers!
December 4, 2024 The Journey Farmer Program is a year-long cohort for farmers navigating the...
NOFA-VT members seated in a circle at a recent member meeting hosted by Minifactory in Bristol
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Member Meeting Recap
November 13, 2024 What keeps us up at night when it comes to food, farming...
Kirsten Tyler of Rocky Hill Farm proudly beams while holding her VOF certification seal. She's standing in front of one of her organic veggie plots.
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Farmer-to-Farmer Mentorship Success Story: Rocky Hill Farm
October 30, 2024 Kirsten Tyler and Elias Rosenblatt of Rocky Hill Farm, now in its...
Paula Boyle of Roo's Farm stands with hands on hips, admiring a squash crop
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Farmer-to-Farmer Mentorship Success Story: Roo’s Farm
October 30, 2024 Paula Boyle and her family have a lot going on in their...
Yvette Lanneaux of Sajima Farm pictured with her sheep
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Farmer-to-Farmer Mentorship Success Story: Sajima Farm
October 24, 2024 From forest to small farm, Yvette Lanneaux has been hard at work...
The farm team at Luna Bleu works together to harvest their crops during a NOFA-VT staff visit
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For Many of Our Challenges, the Vermont Food Security Roadmap Charts the Way Forward
During the early COVID-19 pandemic, bare grocery shelves laid plain the brittleness of the industrialized...
A field at Bone Mountain Farm that suffered extensive damage in the July 2024 flooding
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Reflecting on Two Years of Historic Flooding
July 2024 marked the one-year anniversary of 2023’s historic floods while simultaneously calling us to...