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Taste the bounty, enjoy the beauty on a bike ride
Ticket sales directly support ACORN’s Food Hub and the Farmacy: Food is Medicine Program.
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The 2026 Tour de Farms fundraising bike ride is back
Ticket sales directly support ACORN’s Food Hub and the Farmacy: Food is Medicine Program.
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By the Way, August 20, 2026
ACORN, is looking for around six volunteers to help with SAG wagon/bike maintenance in September.
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By the Way: August 6, 2026
All the info you need to vote is online at the Vermont Voter Portal: vote.vermont.gov.
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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.
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Tour de Farms to go through Middlebury
Next month’s Tour de Farms cycling tour will launch from Middlebury for the first time in its 17-year history.
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Grant will help goat farm purchase new equipment
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…
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BIPOC farmers facing challenges
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…
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ACORN’s ‘Farmacy’ books local farmers, provides fresh veggies
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.
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Local farms get a boost from ACORN volunteers
Community members can join “working bee” brigades organized by ACORN to help tackle various projects on area farms, from onion planting to sheep shearing.
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‘Working bees’ tackle projects on local farms
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…
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ACORN to host climate change talk
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.”
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New network helps farmers connect, talk 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…
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ACORN Food Hub meets needs of farmers and food producers
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…
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New food hub opens on Exchange Street
The CVOEO center stores food and distributes it to local low-income households.
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Addison County food hub will open soon
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…