Jenny and Giacomo Vascotto bring Italian “cucina povera” to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. “The problem with pasta,” said Giacomo Vascotto, “is that there are so many brands out there, but how many can you name that are exceptional? Probably none.” The founders of Trenchers Farmhouse in Lyndonville, VT,...
The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund (VSJF) announces the hire of Hannah Baxter as Farm to Plate Network Manager. VSJF is a nonprofit organization focused on economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in Vermont for the benefit and well-being...
Room for Growth Needed in Regional Food Consumption The New England Food System Planners Partnership just released a detailed analysis of local food spending in New England – Regional Food Count 2022. The report reveals that $2.28 billion or 3.1% of New England’s total $120.6 billion...
The third and fourth generation owners of Monument Farms Dairy navigate the business, the legacy, and the future of one of Vermont’s last independent dairy farms. If the James and Rooney family could bottle and sell the authenticity, quality, and humility behind Monument Farms Dairy, they...
[caption id="attachment_6593" align="alignleft" width="203"] A Regional Approach to Food System Resilience - NEFNE Report[/caption] The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund (VSJF) is providing important leadership for a new initiative called New England Feeding New England (NEFNE), aimed at increasing 30% of the food that is produced and...
Last year was an historically hard year on Vermont farmers and food businesses. A late spring frost resulted in significant losses for fruit growers, the July floods inundated farm fields of all types, though produce and hay crops were hit especially hard, and global grain...
For two years, over 600 Vermonters contributed their personal expertise on food security to develop a Food Security in Vermont: Roadmap to 2035. The Farm to Plate Network’s Food Security Priority Strategy Team led the Roadmap development and presented the completed Roadmap on January 24,...
Junction Fiber Mill founders blend quality and tradition with the “punk rock side of knitting” at their custom processing mill in Vermont. Peggy Allen likes to knit. Amanda Kievet likes to knit. The two met over a skein of yarn Peggy was selling at the Norwich...
Connection, community, and sustainability at the heart of Karin Bellemare’s vision for a “new, old general store” in Middlesex. “There’s something larger going on here than bagging greens,” said Karin Bellemare, owner of The Roots Farm Market in Middlesex. “There’s a community connection.”...
A new report puts forth a regional goal of producing and consuming 30% of New England’s food needs in the region by 2030. It is commissioned by the New England State Food System Planners Partnership, a collaboration between six state-level food system organizations and Food...
Starting a business with the intention to support local agriculture is the easy part. Growing that business in a way that is both profitable and true to those values can be a challenge. Erika Lynch and Julie Morton, owners of Babette’s Table in Waitsfield, dug...
Scott Sparks always knew he wanted to open a cannabis business, but it was not until he was in his 60s, ready to retire from his decades long career in food service, that his dream began to take shape....
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