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A dairy farmworker wearing tall rubber work boots is pictured from the waist-down walking through a dairy barn with a pitchfork in one hand and a bucket in the other
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Public Statement from the Northeast Organic Farming Association Interstate Council
April 21, 2025 We demand that the farmworkers who have been arrested in the last...
Farmers, farmworkers, and food system advocates gathered in front of the Middlebury USDA offices for a Farmer Day of Action, carrying signs reading "Farmworkers are Essential" and holding giant spoons to signify the imperative to ensure that all are fed.
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Coming Together For a Farmer Day of Action
April 18, 2025 On the evening of April 16th, dozens of farmers, farmworkers, and community...
Stephen Leslie and his daughter, Maeve, pictured with the US Capitol building behind them during their visit for the NFFC DC Fly-In
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Speaking Up for Our Small Farms in D.C.
April 11, 2025 Back in December, when Grace Oedel, the director of NOFA-VT, asked me...
A food service professional from Windham Northeast Supervisory Union prepares a pizza from scratch using local, organic flour from Nitty Gritty Grain Company
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Feeding Kids Is Our "Bread & Butter"
April 11, 2025 Exciting news! The NOFA-VT Farm to School team is spearheading two new...
Joe Bossen of Cloud Water Farm, a Resilience Grant recipient, is pictured teaching an on-farm workshop about willow trees at his farm in Warren
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Announcing the 2025 Resilience Grantees
April 8, 2025 NOFA-VT is pleased to announce that we have awarded our sixth annual...
A close-up of a child's hands holding a bundle of beets and carrots
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Help NOFA-VT Shape a More Equitable Farm Share Application Process
March 25, 2025 NOFA VT’s Farm Share Program provides fresh, local foods to Vermonters in...
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...