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Cows
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VT Digger: In crisis mode, organic dairy farmers ask lawmakers for $9 million in emergency relief
Organic dairy farmers pleaded with state lawmakers in both the Senate and House agriculture committees...
Graphic: We Need Organic Dairies Now They Need Us
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ACTION ALERT: Call your rep to save organic dairies
Every lost organic dairy farm makes Vermont less climate resilient, less economically resilient, less food...
Maria, a farmer, holds up a clump of carrots, admiring them.
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News From the Farm: Growing Farmers
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People checking in at the conference
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Volunteer With NOFA-VT!
We're currently seeking multiple volunteers to support our operations! Data Entry and Office Work We're...
Vermont statehouse
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NOFA-VT State Policy Priorities for 2023
For the 2023-2024 legislative biennium, about one third of each chamber (House and Senate) will...
A farmer selling seedlings to a customer
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Convening Farmers for NOFA-VT's Long-Term Financial Planning Cohort
NOFA-VT is convening a cohort of experienced farmers (those who consider themselves beyond start-up phase)...
pea shoots
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News From the Farm: Winter Crops
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Will Raap stands outside on a dairy farm
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Remembering Will Raap
Our thoughts are with the family and colleagues of Will Raap, a leader in Vermont’s...
A farmer tends to chive plants
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Update on Our Work With the Soil Health & Payment for Ecosystem Services Working Group
Since 2019, NOFA-VT has served on Vermont's Soil Health & Payment for Ecosystem Services Working...
hands holding soil
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The Path to Protecting Soils from PFAS and Microplastics Contamination
If you believe in the need for healthy soils and resilient, organic, and community-scale agriculture...
Two farmers rake a farm bed
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The End of Organic Farming (As We Know It)
The fundamental concepts of organic farming have always been, “Feed the Soil, not the Plant,”...
A woman stands inside a greenhouse holding a flat of harvested beans.
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Processing the 2022 Harvest for the Abenaki Land Link Project
It is a warm day in late September as I wrestle open a tent behind...
Assortment of green and orange Algonquin squash
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Thanksgiving
If you are gathering this week with loved ones to eat a harvest meal and...
A small group stands in a circle in a pasture.
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Reflections on the Inaugural Jack Lazor Memorial Soil Health Stewards
The Jack Lazor Memorial Soil Stewards cohort launched in the spring of 2021 thanks in...
Melanie and Patrick Harrison with their herd in Addison, Vermont
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Meet the Farmers: Melanie & Patrick Harrison
Did you know that when you buy Organic Valley products, you're supporting Vermont Organic dairy...