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The farm team at Luna Bleu works together to harvest their crops during a NOFA-VT staff visit
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For Many of Our Challenges, the Vermont Food Security Roadmap Charts the Way Forward
During the early COVID-19 pandemic, bare grocery shelves laid plain the brittleness of the industrialized...
A field at Bone Mountain Farm that suffered extensive damage in the July 2024 flooding
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Reflecting on Two Years of Historic Flooding
July 2024 marked the one-year anniversary of 2023’s historic floods while simultaneously calling us to...
Ryan and Kara of Evening Song Farm stand in front of their barn with a colorful painting of their logo and a sign reading "you are beautiful"
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Better Agricultural Policy Through Farmer Leadership
NOFA-VT has always been a vital player in farm policy advocacy, currently spearheaded at the...
Maddie Kempner, NOFA VT Policy & Organizing Director pictured with NOFA-VT Board Member Becky Maden, her partner Scott Greene of Singing Cedars Farmstead, and their daughter, Ruth.
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How Tractors Can Save the Farming Movement: A Visit to Farm Aid
Farm aid is mostly known for Willie Nelson, amazing music, and a massive amount of...
People harvest vegetables in a flooding field
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Supporting Our Farms Through the July 2024 Flooding, Together
July 11, 2024 We know many folks have heavy hearts today, facing surging flood waters...
Farmers Katie Rose and Brian of Head Over Fields Farm smiling at their farmstand
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A Turning Point for Food Security in Vermont
We are thrilled to share that the 2024 Vermont legislative session marks an incredible win...
NOFA-VT team members Lauren Griswold, Wholesale Markets Program Director, Kayla Strom, NOFA-VT Farm to School Program Manager, and Helen Rortvedt, Director of Programs, pose with Olga Moriarty, Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Family Farm Partnership, Harley Sterling, Director of School Nutrition for Windham Northeast Supervisory Union, and farmer Peter Miller, during a visit to Miller Farm to celebrate a pilot project bringing local, organic milk to school cafeterias
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An Update on the First Year of Vermont Organic Milk for Vermont’s Schools
A little over a year ago, a Vermont organic dairy farmer and a local school...
Farmer Stoni Tomson of New Traditions Farm
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New Roots and New Traditions: One Young Farm’s Vision for a More Delicious, More Connected, More Salad-Filled World
“Welcome to Salad Paradise” reads the homepage of New Tradition Farm, owned, operated, and stewarded...
The team at Food Connects poses with their VOF organic certification logo in front of their delivery vehicle
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Vermont’s Food Hubs Achieve Organic Certification, Together
A large feat in Vermont’s organic food system was underway throughout the first quarter of...
A bumble bee pollinates an Alati onion
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Farmers Support the Pollinator Protection Bill
In May, Gov. Phil Scott had the opportunity to sign into state law a landmark...
a honey bee rests inside a calendula flower
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Take Action to Save the Pollinator Protection Act
H.706, a bill to restrict the use of neonicotinoids and protect pollinators, passed the House...
Farmers Katie Rose and Brian of Head Over Fields Farm smiling at their farmstand
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A Big Win for Food Access in VT
May 29, 2024 We’re thrilled to share that the state legislature allocated $300k in one-time...
tomato seedlings with 2024 farm bill logo
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House and Senate Release Farm Bill Proposals
In the first meaningful action toward a new farm bill from Congress in many months...
Inside a high tunnel full of greens at Old Road Farm
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Announcing the 2024 Resilience Grantees
This spring, NOFA-VT awarded our fifth annual round of Resilience Grants to fund projects aimed...
Veggies and flowers from an Intervale Community Farm CSA share spread out on a picnic table
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CSAs as a Tool for Resilience
We are in the midst of spring and summer CSA sign-up season once again! For...