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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

Building Farm & Community Resilience Together in Southern Vermont

A group of farmers and other food system stakeholders gathered in a circle at Breadseed Farm for a resilience project meeting

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January 30, 2026

Wrap-Around Support on the Path to Farm Viability

A farmers hands in fresh, rich soil

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January 6, 2026

Building Community Through Farming: The Farm Upstream’s Resilience Grant Journey

Farm Upstream farmers Jake, Cory, Tucker, Spencer, and Jacqueline in their high tunnel full of spring greens

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July 19, 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

Becoming Soil Stewards

The outgoing Soil Stewards Cohort held a wrap party at Footprint Farm in October of 2024

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Meet our 2024- 2025 Journey Farmers!

Journey Farmer Laura Xiao of By Hand Farm in Newfane

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December 4, 2024

Farmer-to-Farmer Mentorship Success Story: Rocky Hill Farm

Kirsten Tyler of Rocky Hill Farm proudly beams while holding her VOF certification seal. She's standing in front of one of her organic veggie plots.

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October 30, 2024

Farmer-to-Farmer Mentorship Success Story: Roo’s Farm

Paula Boyle of Roo's Farm stands with hands on hips, admiring a squash crop

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October 30, 2024

Farmer-to-Farmer Mentorship Success Story: Sajima Farm

Yvette Lanneaux of Sajima Farm pictured with her sheep

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October 24, 2024

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