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Misse stands outside with a sign that reads "this farm feeds VT kids"
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News From the Farm: Sharing our love of connecting with the community
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Graphic: We Need Organic Dairies Now They Need Us
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ACTION ALERT: Call your senators to save organic dairies
The latest: Last week we asked you to contact your House Reps in support of...
Cows
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VT Digger: In crisis mode, organic dairy farmers ask lawmakers for $9 million in emergency relief
Organic dairy farmers pleaded with state lawmakers in both the Senate and House agriculture committees...
Graphic: We Need Organic Dairies Now They Need Us
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ACTION ALERT: Call your rep to save organic dairies
Every lost organic dairy farm makes Vermont less climate resilient, less economically resilient, less food...
Maria, a farmer, holds up a clump of carrots, admiring them.
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News From the Farm: Growing Farmers
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People checking in at the conference
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Volunteer With NOFA-VT!
We're currently seeking multiple volunteers to support our operations! Data Entry and Office Work We're...
Vermont statehouse
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NOFA-VT State Policy Priorities for 2023
For the 2023-2024 legislative biennium, about one third of each chamber (House and Senate) will...
A farmer selling seedlings to a customer
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Convening Farmers for NOFA-VT's Long-Term Financial Planning Cohort
NOFA-VT is convening a cohort of experienced farmers (those who consider themselves beyond start-up phase)...
pea shoots
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News From the Farm: Winter Crops
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Will Raap stands outside on a dairy farm
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Remembering Will Raap
Our thoughts are with the family and colleagues of Will Raap, a leader in Vermont’s...
A farmer tends to chive plants
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Update on Our Work With the Soil Health & Payment for Ecosystem Services Working Group
Since 2019, NOFA-VT has served on Vermont's Soil Health & Payment for Ecosystem Services Working...
hands holding soil
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The Path to Protecting Soils from PFAS and Microplastics Contamination
If you believe in the need for healthy soils and resilient, organic, and community-scale agriculture...
Two farmers rake a farm bed
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The End of Organic Farming (As We Know It)
The fundamental concepts of organic farming have always been, “Feed the Soil, not the Plant,”...
A woman stands inside a greenhouse holding a flat of harvested beans.
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Processing the 2022 Harvest for the Abenaki Land Link Project
It is a warm day in late September as I wrestle open a tent behind...
Assortment of green and orange Algonquin squash
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Thanksgiving
If you are gathering this week with loved ones to eat a harvest meal and...