Lawson’s Finest Liquids’ Sunshine Fund donates to ACORN

Lawson’s Finest Liquids has selected Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) as a recipient of its 2026 Sunshine Fund.

Next month’s Tour de Farms cycling tour will launch from Middlebury for the first time in its 17-year history.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets and the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week announced the winners of the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (Equipment-Only awards in Vermont. Fourteen Vermont food system organizations a … (read more)

A century ago, Black farmers owned an estimated 14% of the country’s farmland. By 2017, that number had dropped to below 2%. The picture is similar here in the Green Mountain State, where just 17 of Vermont’s 7,000 farms (or 0.33 percent) were Black- or A … (read more)

Each week ACORN staff and volunteers help package shares of fresh produce from local farms, which are then doled out and delivered to 100 local families.

Community members can join “working bee” brigades organized by ACORN to help tackle various projects on area farms, from onion planting to sheep shearing.

It’s often been said that many hands make light work, and that’s certainly the idea behind the volunteer “working bee” groups being organized by The Addison County Relocalization Network.

At its annual meeting on Nov. 28, the Addison County Relocalization Network, or ACORN, will host a panel discussion on “Farming on the Forefront of Climate Change.”

The Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) is launching a new group that will give local food producers a chance to connect with one another, discuss challenges and explore ways to address climate change.

In early January 2023, Lindsey Berk, ACORN’s Executive Director, and Jess Purks, its Food Hub Manager, loaded up over $2,000 of local food in a delivery van at the new ACORN Food Hub in Middlebury.

The CVOEO center stores food and distributes it to local low-income households.

The Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) has just hired a manager for a new “food hub” on Middlebury’s Exchange Street that next month will begin receiving a variety of wares from area food producers and help get them to markets both near and far … (read more)

Recently, during a Farm to School meeting, the term “Sense of Place” was mentioned a few times. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard that term, but a question kept echoing in my mind. What does it mean for one to have a Sense of Place?

ACORN was one of eight project proposals to share $324,467 in Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets grants to help fruit, vegetable, and value-added producers increase consumer access to locally produced food.

ACORN’s 13th annual Tour de Farms, one of Vermont’s oldest cycling farm tours, is returning after 2020’s COVID-induced hiatus. On Saturday, Sept. 18, riders will make eight stops along a 30-mile route and sample some of the Champlain Valley’s best food an … (read more)