Please join UVM Extension NWCS and Northeast Cover Crops Council (NECCC) on Tuesdays from Nov. 3 to Dec. 15 (not including Nov. 24) for a free webinar series on a variety of cover crop topics. Most webinars will include at least one farmer speaker. Webinars will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern time.
Earn a Certified Crop Adviser CEU for each webinar you attend.
October 20, 2026
We’re gathering to develop what a Vermont Farm and Food Bill could look like, what it would take, and the meaningful change we can make along the way.
Seed sovereignty is core to our food security, and Vermont has a thriving community-based seed exchange ecosystem. States--including Vermont--are facing pressure to pass state seed policies that could undermine some of our most valued community-based seed practices. Now is the time to protect and expand the practices that ensure seed sovereignty in Vermont.
The 2026 Rich Earth Summit is the 12th annual gathering on urine diversion, compost toilets, and other source-separation systems—advancing sustainable, equitable nutrient cycles. The Summit explores how farms can reclaim nutrients in human “waste” as a valuable resource instead of letting them become costly watershed pollutants.
The Rich Earth Summit brings together a growing global community of researchers, nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, farmers, educators, engineers, municipal leaders, policymakers, and advocates.
Come work with students in a farm setting and live in a robust intentional community of exceptional young people.
Kroka’s farm is currently at a transition point. The small farm operation has grown alongside the organization over the past 20 years and is ready for someone who can take it forward with passion and vision. We are currently hiring for a Farm Manager/Educator that is not only responsible for the land and livestock, but is an integral part of our organization. Experience with farm management is equally valued with strong written and verbal communication, people skills, and systems organization. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 3-5 years experience managing a diversified farm operation including vegetables and livestock, and has experience teaching children and teenagers in a farm-education context.
Compensation and Benefits: This is a full-time, year-round position with a starting salary range of $40,000 - $50,000 depending on experience. Benefits include 100% employer-paid health insurance, employer-matched retirement benefits, paid vacation and sick days, food and housing benefits. The total value of salary and benefits for this position is estimated at $70,000-$80,000. On-campus housing is available at no charge in a recently renovated 1 or 2-bedroom apartment. The schedule demands of the position require on-campus residency or immediate local residency within a 10-minute drive of campus.
Minifactory (restaurant, bakery & grocery) homes V Smiley Preserves (jam company) in downtown Bristol, Vermont. This hybrid cafe, bakery, grocery and production model hums with daily activity.
The kitchen is non-traditional and collaborative. We believe that kitchen work is exciting, meaningful, creative and a great fit for all kinds of folks.
V Smiley Preserves makes honey sweetened preserves. We specialize in intricate textured flavors, making no-added pectin preserves, investing in our local foodshed, and supporting organic growing practices. Preserves & local fruit feature throughout the menu.
The wonderful town of Bristol Vermont is located in Addison County. The area is agricultural and adjacent to the mountain communities of Lincoln and Starksboro. We are a 40 minute drive to Burlington, 25 minutes to Middlebury.
We’re hiring a skilled, creative baker / pastry chef to helm the baking program at Minifactory. Our location has homed a bakery for almost 5 decades and the community's appreciation for pastry and baking is immense.
You'll step into a well-organized system built by a veteran pastry chef who is moving on after four years at Minifactory. The system is yours to learn and gradually morph around your strengths and interests while working with V Smiley to craft a pastry case that emphasizes seasonality and fruit and aromatics especially
Our ideal candidate likes to work independently but understands themselves to be a part of the V Smiley Preserves / Minifactory organization and enjoys ancillary roles. You are the morning time lead in the space, setting the tone in the kitchen, greeting/checking in deliveries, keeping counterfolks informed about menu, etc. You are a pivotal part of our leadership team at Minifactory.
Who You’ll Work With
You manage: Assistant baker
You report to: V Smiley
ROLE
o Overseeing and fulfilling upon daily output of biscuits and 14-18 additional baked goods (tea cake, danish, cookies, scones, brioche, potentially croissants) and monthly bakes of gluten free bread for the kitchen
o Testing + creating products for the pastry case
o Coordinating with savory cooks
o Tying output to seasonality
RESULTS
o A baking program that speaks to a large clientele from grain free or gluten free to folks who don’t like super sweet to traditional bakeshop offerings - we want to make sweetness available to as wide a group as possible
o Foster communicative and upbeat work environment
o Stimulates excellence in both the individual and group
o Minimizes food waste
REQUIREMENTS
o A love of learning (both through self teaching and co-workers)
o Wide range of skills and interests from laminated doughs to keenness for working with alternative flours and sweeteners
o Likes working with aromatics and herbs/spices
o Have excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
o A love for being part of a team and using a strengths based approach
o Highly organized
o Quick, efficient, multi-tasking and attentive to detail
o Community minded
Some of our baking influences: Charlie Dunmire, Nigel Slater, Pam Corbin, Tandem, Thalia Ho, Camilla Wynne, Magnus Nilsson, Claudia Roden, Aran Goyoaga, Fany Gerson.
Compensation
Online: http://vsmileypreserves.com/jobs
1. Scroll to the bottom of vsmileypreserves.com/jobs and fill out application and send materials requested on application to [email protected]
2. We’ll be in touch via your provided contact info to set up a remote, 10 min. interview.
3. Final steps will be a hybrid working and in person interview.
Learn what a statewide land bank could do and how land banks bring abandoned properties back to life across the country. This will be an interactive webinar hosted by the Vermont Department of Housing & Community Development, with opportunities to ask questions and provide feedback.
We’ll meet at UVM’s Jericho Research Forest classroom for an introduction to the Forest including its history, current and future management goals. Then, we’ll walk into the forest to see a recently planted forest farming site. We’ll discuss key indicator species for forest farming and identify a good location to plant ramps. The workshop includes an hour of hands-on planting of ramp bulbs, so be ready to get your hands dirty. There will also be many opportunities to talk about the current state of Vermont forests and forest farming.
Unsexed, but if you can figure out how to differentiate you're more than welcome to pick which ones you want! Great dad called Sam who I have had for ten years and he never met a goose he liked until he met Rosa this past year. She laid 9 eggs this spring and 8 hatched in May. $50 each of $80 for two. Located in Chelsea, Vermont.
Beautiful Farm for Sale in Central Vermont
Check out the information about this beautiful hillside farm for sale. It is a well maintained 69 acre organic property with 40 open acres. There is plenty of land for grazing divided by streams, a few acres of cropland for flowers, herbs or veggies, a wide variety of fruit planted, 20 plus acres of woodlot, a tourism component (cabins and tent sites), a barn, a sixteen-year-old house/community building, and greenhouses.
The farm is ideal for sheep or other grazing projects and those interested in diversified farming along with guest/educational ventures. It is suited to a single family or a collaborative ownership could make excellent use of this property, using the centrally located existing house as a community center.
A complete listing can be found on vermontlandlink.org --- “Beautiful west-facing farm with educational/agritourism component in Royalton, Vermont”
