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Paige Wener of Green & Gold CSA is shown smiling in her new farmstand and CSA distribution facility while holding fresh carrots in her right hand and a head of romaine lettuce in her left hand
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Building Farm Resilience and Community Food Security at Green & Gold CSA
November 12, 2026 In a small, rural Vermont town without a grocery store within a...
Farmer-owner Karin Bellemare of Bear Roots Farm and The Roots Farm Market stands smiling while tending to her retail perennial starts at The Roots Market
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Four Farms Collaborate for a Resilient Future
November 11, 2026 What is possible when four farms pool their Resilience Grant resources? For...
Two farm workers from The People's Farmstand are seen harvesting cilantro at Mama's Farm
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Growing Resilience Through Food and Connection: Mama’s Farm & The People’s Farmstand
November 9, 2026 Two interconnected, community-rooted organizations are making fresh, culturally meaningful produce more accessible...
A customers hand is seen passing an EBT card to a farmers market staff member's hand over a table filled with colorful fresh produce
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Fewer Vermont Retailers Are Accepting Food Assistance Benefits. Here’s Why.
October 28, 2026 A shorter version of this piece was published in VT Digger on...
Hyacinthe Ayingeneye of Mama's Farm stands smiling in her farm field with Nour El-Naboulsi of The People's Farmstand
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2027 Resilience Grant Applications Open on November 1
October 27, 2026 The NOFA-VT Resilience Grant program supports farmers across Vermont by funding projects...
An aerial view of Vermont farm fields, high tunnels, and a barn with a Farm Bill 2026 logo centered over the image
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Tell Senator Welch: Hold the Line on the Farm Bill
October 20, 2026 "I have a small farm in Bethel...The time for fighting for what...
Participants in the regional agroforestry gathering are gathered in a grove of nut trees
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Cultivating a Farmer-Led Regional Agroforestry Transformation
October 8, 2026 What would it take to build a food system that could withstand...
Stephen Leslie, NOFA-VT member and farmer at Cedar Mountain Farm and Cobb Hill Cheese, is shown leading his cows to pasture up a dirt road as he gestures to the green hill-side pasture to his right.
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A Just Transition for Vermont's Dairy Farms
October 6, 2026 Currently, the dairy sector occupies 80 percent of agricultural land in Vermont...
Stoni Tomson of New Tradition Farm and Sarah Jane Williamson of Jubilee Farm stand in a field chatting with Land Together Learning Network participants about their experiences sharing land in Huntington
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Re-learning Community with the Land Together Learning Network
October 7, 2026 “Who is the boss?” asked participant Julie Wolcott at the most recent...
NOFA-VT Board members, along with NOFA-VT Executive Director Grace Oedel and NOFA-VT Deputy Director of Programs and Operations Helen Rortvedt on the steps of the Statehouse for a Board Advocacy Day in support of the Farm Security Fund
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Join the NOFA-VT Board of Directors!
September 15, 2026 Do you believe agriculture can help heal the planet while supporting farmers...
Vermont farmers lined up along the side of a red barn at Honey Field Farm with Senator Peter Welch and his staff, along with staff from NOFA-VT's policy & organizing team
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Senator Welch Meets With Vermont Farmers to Talk Farm Policy
September 8, 2026 What do Vermont farmers need from federal policy to build viable farms...
farmer to farmer planning
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Farmer-to-Farmer Adaptation Planning for Farms at Risk of Flooding
August 12, 2026 NOFA-VT is launching a new adaptation planning program for farmers at significant...
Todd Hardie of the Champlain Valley Grain Center is seen seated on a forklift receiving a load of fresh grain from Tyler of Granite Grains
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A Vermont Grain Shed Collaboration
August 11, 2026 “The rye over there” – Tyler gestures – “will be going to...
A happy grass-fed cow at Severy's Purple Barn Farm in Cornwall, VT
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Farmers: Write to USDA in Support of the Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards (OLPS) Rule
August 7, 2026 We at NOFA-VT, along with our partners at the National Organic Coalition...
farm workshop
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Farmer Continuing Education Scholarships Available
Scholarships Available for Farmer Learning Pasa Sustainable Agriculture can provide scholarships to farmers for continuing...