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ACTION ALERT: Contact your Senator(s) and ask them to fund the Farm Security Fund!

NOFA-VT farmer member Margaret Loftus of Crossmolina Farm and NOFA-VT Grassroots Organizer Jess Hays Lucas sit across the State House cafeteria table from Representative Mike Tagliavia, having a conversation about the The Farm and Forestry Operations Security Special Fund (S.60), while other legislators enjoy lunch in the background

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March 27, 2026

Tell Governor Scott: Please Sign S.60—Farm & Forestry Ops Security Special Fund!

Maddie Kempner, NOFA-VT's Policy & Organizing Director, gives an enthusiastic high-five to NOFA-VT farmer-member and Board member Melisa Oliva of Ananda Gardens after learning that S.60, The Farm and Forestry Operations Security Special Fund unanimously passed both chambers of the Vermont Legislature

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March 23, 2026

What We’re Focusing On for the 2026 State Legislative Session

The Vermont State House on a snowy day

January 2, 2026

USDA Plans Major Reorganization: What’s at Stake and How to Speak Out

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August 18, 2025

Public Statement from the Northeast Organic Farming Association Interstate Council

A dairy farmworker wearing tall rubber work boots is pictured from the waist-down walking through a dairy barn with a pitchfork in one hand and a bucket in the other

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April 21, 2025

Help NOFA-VT Shape a More Equitable Farm Share Application Process

A close-up of a child's hands holding a bundle of beets and carrots

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share the harvest

March 25, 2025

New Farm Security Fund Gains Unanimous Senate Support

Peggy Newfield of Newfield Herb Farm meets with Senator Douglass in the Vermont State House cafeteria to urge his support for the Farm Security Fund

March 24, 2025

For Many of Our Challenges, the Vermont Food Security Roadmap Charts the Way Forward

The farm team at Luna Bleu works together to harvest their crops during a NOFA-VT staff visit

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During the early COVID-19 pandemic, bare grocery shelves laid plain the brittleness of the i

Farmers Support the Pollinator Protection Bill

A bumble bee pollinates an Alati onion

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Vermont Organic Farmers

In May, Gov.

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