Interested in agroforestry?
Whether you are a farmer, technical assistance provider, researcher or just curious, please join the Farm to Plate Agroforestry Priority Strategy Team for this upcoming meeting.
Please join us for some spooky cocktails and food as we celebrate Halloween. We will have a costume contest so come as you please! Costumes are not needed to participate in the party.
Party is from 3pm-8pm. Prizes will be given and the and winners will be announced at 6pm for the best group and individual costume.
Paprika will be on site serving some empanada's and we will have a limited menu also with some snacks for purchase.
You are invited to a special tasting room event at Fable Farm to learn more about the White River Land Collaborative. WRLC is hosting a documentary screening and information session to support our women-led land access project for young and beginning farmers. We’ll be showing ‘A Seed for the Future’ at 5:30 PM. The film is an inspiring 15-minute documentary about the achievements, challenges, and aspirations of this community-driven initiative for farmland access, and why it matters in Vermont and beyond.
Emily Virzi and Rose Thackeray will teach participants the basics of raising, slaughtering, and processing turkeys. Participants get to take home 2-3# of ground turkey at the end of the workshop.
Please join Rural Vermont and Merck Forest and Farmland Center in Rupert, Vermont on Saturday, November 4th for a pig slaughter and processing day!
In the first half of this 2-part workshop, participants will learn how to humanely slaughter, gut, skin, and quarter a whole pig. The 2nd half of the workshop will feature instruction on how to efficiently butcher and process various pork cuts.
Are you interested in increasing your or your community’s sustainability, climate resilience, and food access? Rabbit meat is among the most sustainable proteins you can consume, using far less resources and definitely less work than most other livestock. And, yes, it really does taste like chicken... buttery, lean chicken!
Rural Vermont and Vermont Growers Association are excited to present their first cannabis workshop collaboration at Lovespun Homestead in southern Vermont! Lovespun Homestead is a licensed Tier 1 Outdoor Cultivator and our farm hosts, Alex and Em, welcome us to their lovely homestead and cannabis operation.
Please join us for an outdoor 3-hour workshop covering the ABCs of cannabis post-harvest processing and production. This workshop will cover:
Washing (esp. in a season like we just had)
Drying
Come learn how to fine-tune your high tunnel crop production skills & visit the trade show. This conference is for high tunnel vegetable growers and agricultural service providers of all experience levels. Hosted by UVM, UNH and UME. Pesticide credits awarded. See full program at: https://www.uvm.edu/~htunnel/High%20Tunnel%20Conference%20Registration%20Flyer%20v9-28-2023.pdf
Are you interested in local closed-loop nutrient systems? Join us for a field trip to Thetford Elementary School's compost system!
The Food Cycle Coalition is organizing a field trip to Thetford Elementary School in Thetford, VT, for an in-person gathering from 4-5:30 pm on Thursday, October 19th.
Owner of Four Girls Dairy, Peter Rainville, and UVM Extension will discuss optimizing forage quality and increasing home grown forages in diet. Four Girls Dairy is a 75 cow dairy with a robotic milker. Peter has been fine-tuning his operation over the years to create an efficient dairy operation with minimal additional labor. View the flyer at https://bit.ly/3RIFLrZ
