Join us on Wednesday March 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM for a webinar on business planning and budgeting for farm equipment! This webinar will focus primarily on small, diversified farm operations. New and beginning farmers are encouraged to attend!
Climate Adaptation Planning is a useful tool to assess risks and identify strategies to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change. We'll be led through this session by Sean Hagan of the Maine Farmland Trust and Sara Keleman of American Farmland Trust to discuss the process of climate adaptation planning with a focus on the impacts of flooding and high precipitation conditions.
February 27, 2025
Sean Birkel, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Maine and the Maine State Climatologist, will review Maine’s historical temperature and precipitation trends and future climate projections, and discuss impacts to the growing season.
Sean will give an overview of online tools relevant to agriculture, including growing degree day and precipitation summaries, frost date estimates, and other resources.
Farmers throughout New England have been severely impacted by extreme precipitation and flooding. As a result, farms are innovating, exploring creative and meaningful ways to adapt their businesses and production systems to climate change.
Come celebrate local fermentation at The Soda Plant, 266 Pine Street, Burlington VT
Vendors will be stationed throughout The Soda Plant, each highlighting a specific type of fermented food, beverage, natural dyes, and more! Mingle, ask the fabulous fermenters questions, sample their products, eat prepared fermented foods, and buy some to take home with you.
We hope you leave inspired to eat and make more fermented foods and continue supporting the wonderful fermenters in our community!
Taste the Valley is a tradeshow event that brings together diverse local food producers and buyers to connect and discover the flavors of Vermont's Champlain Valley.
We'll gather on Thursday, March 20 from 9:30-12 at Middlebury College's Wilson Hall for a casual morning of good food, conversation, and connections.
This event is hosted by the ACORN Food Hub in Middlebury, Vermont with support from Middlebury College. If the registration fee will be prohibitive but you would like to attend, get in touch!
We will be providing light snacks and refreshments.
On Saturday, March 1st, the Brattleboro Food Co-op will celebrate local bread with Bread Fest. This event will feature an amateur bread baking competition (see the info and registration link at the bottom of this page) judged by local baking luminaries, opportunities to speak with master bakers, and a talk and book signing by Jonathan Stevens, baker and author of The Hungry Ghost Bread Book.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Champlain Valley Hops is the largest hop farm in New England. Located about 30 minutes south of Burlington, we grow and process premium hops for the region's growing number of craft breweries as well as home brewers. 99% of hops in the United States are grown in the Pacific Northwest. CVH is passionate about local agriculture and are proud to give brewers out East greater access to local ingredients that represent the region.
Our farm is located in the town of Starksboro on a sandy plateau in Vermont’s Champlain Valley. We are about 10 miles from Lake Champlain and 20 miles south of Burlington. The beautiful 240 acre property was a dairy farm before we purchased the land and planted our first hops in the spring of 2018. We currently grow 10 varieties of hops on 37 trellised acres. As a relatively young farm, we are constantly working to improve our growing practices with quality, yields, and sustainability in mind. We encourage all crew members to participate in the company's development and to make suggestions when they see an opportunity for improvement. You can learn more about Champlain Valley hops through our website(ChamplainValleyHops.com) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/champlain.valley.hops/).
JOB DESCRIPTION
Champlain Valley Hops is seeking hard working individuals to join our spring farm crew. Spring season runs from early April to late June. Spring crew members will be given the opportunity to return for hop harvest, which runs from late August to late September. Full season work may be available for the right individual.
Spring activities consist primarily of “stringing” and “training”. Every season, new strings are hung from the top of our 18 ft trellis and are staked into the ground by our crew. Hops are perennial plants and the season's newly emerging bines are then hand trained to grow up the strings. Like most farm work, these tasks are repetitive and physically demanding but rewarding for folks that enjoy moving their bodies and working outside.
Ideal candidates are available full time, M-F, 8-5 from early April through late June. Candidates seeking part-time work will be considered on a case by case basis.
We recognize that hops have very little (recent) history in New England, and that applicants may not have direct experience with them. We’re more focused on finding crew members who are willing to work hard, learn new skills, implement detail-oriented tasks, keep a productive pace, and work as a team. Our goal is to create a safe, fun, and inclusive work environment for our staff.
JOB REQUIREMENTS / DESIRED SKILLS
COMPENSATION: Starting at $18.00/hour + seasonal bonus (typically an extra $1-2/hr).
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please send a resume and explanation as to why you are interested in this position to [email protected].
