Local Food & Farm Guide
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Agroforestry helping farmers prep for climate change
Agroforestry practitioner Meghan Giroux is in a hurry to get as many trees planted on farms as possible, to help build resilience to climate change.
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Young entrepreneur uses biodynamics to make her wine
For someone whose business is literally planted in a small patch of Vermont soil, Camila Carrillo has connections all around the world.
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Local Food & Farm Guide: Soil, regenerative agriculture & health
2020 was a year of shock and trauma. COVID-19 forced us to confront our worst fears as the world we once knew fell away. Everything came to a…
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Local Food & Farm Guide: Cutting Hill, A Cornwall beef company
When Ramsay and Caroline Mellish moved their farming business from Newport Center to 380 acres of rolling pasture and fields off South Bingham Street in Cornwall five years…
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Local Food & Farm Guide: Golden Russet focuses on soil health
“Regenerative agriculture” may be the latest term to describe a system of sustainable farming that has become popular with the environmentally conscious consumer, but for some farmers, it’s…
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Local Food & Farm Guide: Agroforestry blossoming in New Haven
Mark Krawczyk thinks about soil on several different levels. “From a wide point of view, rebuilding and regenerating soils is one of the most valuable legacies we could…
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Local Food & Farm Guide: Meet the people who provide local food relief
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying economic dislocations made the problems that some Vermonters have with food insecurity all too obvious. As is outlined in the accompanying story…
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Local Food & Farm Guide: Community solutions to rising rates of food insecurity
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying economic dislocations made the problems that some Vermonters have with food insecurity all to obvious. Thankfully, a variety of local efforts have…
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Local Food & Farm Guide: Vermont’s abuzz with pollinators
June 21-27 is national pollinator week and it could not arrive too soon. Vermont’s honeybee population and native pollinator populations are challenged.According to researchers, many native pollinators are…
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Local Food & Farm Guide: The pandemic spurred a growth in farm stands
Since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020, farms have had to pivot their businesses as markets closed and new pandemic restrictions were imposed. The shift from selling…