Agriculture
Sanders, Shumlin to address Slow Living Summit (Brattleboro Reformer)
May 4, 2012
BRATTLEBORO — Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Peter Shumlin are among the dozens of high-profile speakers scheduled to take part in second annual Slow Living Summit, taking place downtown May 30 through June 1. The summit aims to attract engaged citizens, entrepreneurs, investors, educators, students, civic, foundation and non-profit leaders from throughout the United States, [...]
Challenges and opportunities face dairy farmers (Times Argus)
March 26, 2012
By Bruce Edwards It’s the essence of Vermont — a seemingly endless view of fields, pastures and white clapboard villages, cradled by the Green Mountains. But those fields and pastures that make up a Norman Rockwell image of the state are anchored to the livelihood of the state’s dairy industry. It’s an industry that continues [...]
Delegation Wants To Extend MILC Program For Farmers (VPR News)
February 20, 2012
Vermont’s congressional delegation has introduced a bill to extend a program that provides payments to dairy farmers to help weather fluctuating milk prices. The delegation says that in September, farmers could face a severe drop in support from the Milk Income Loss Contract program if no action is taken. The legislation would extend the program [...]
Vt. delegation seeks to extend dairy safety net (Boston Globe)
Vermont’s congressional delegation has introduced a bill to extend a program that provides payments to dairy farmers to help weather fluctuating milk prices. The delegation says that in September, farmers could face a severe drop in support from the Milk Income Loss Contract program if no action is taken. The legislation would extend the program [...]
Vermont to receive $8.7 million in flood aid (Burlington Free Press)
January 19, 2012
By Bill Draper The nation’s top agriculture official on Wednesday announced more than $300 million in emergency assistance to 33 states and Puerto Rico to help them recover from an unusually intense year for natural disasters across the U.S. Vermont will receive nearly $8.7 million. Utah and Missouri will receive the most disaster aid, together [...]
Money from D.C. (Valley News)
By John P. Gregg There’s some good news for farmers and other landowners who suffered flood damage in Tropical Storm Irene — the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded more than $9 million to the Twin States for flood relief programs, according to members of Congress from the two states. Vermont is getting the bulk [...]
Chicken Chain Says Stop, but T-Shirt Maker Balks (New York Times)
December 4, 2011
By Jess Bidgood For Bo Muller-Moore, a folk artist from Vermont, the T-shirtshe hand-screens with the slogan “Eat More Kale” are a dream fulfilled: a quirky project that has emblazoned this leafy mandate across the chests of people worldwide, and one he wants to trademark. So when Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain that says it sells [...]
OpEd: Making Local Food Real (New York Times)
November 29, 2011
By Mark Bittman You might think it would be difficult to find a cheerful and optimistic farmer the year a hurricane wiped out most of the crop, but I did so in Burlington, Vt., the day after Thanksgiving. I was visiting the Intervale Center, a nonprofit that manages a 350-plus-acre flood plain not far from [...]
Mark Bittman and Bernie Sanders Visit Burlington Intervale (7 Days Blurt)
November 25, 2011
By Alice Levitt This morning, food journalist, author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman and Sen. Bernie Sanders gathered farmers and employees of the Burlington Intervale Center for a conference concerning the food system at the 350-acre farming compound. “I’m interested in things that move the agricultural system forward,” Bittman told Seven Days. It [...]
Food columnist Bittman takes seat at Intervale round table (Burlington Free Press)
By Joel Banner Baird The local hors-d’oeuvres — chevre, peach jam and homemade bread — garnered suprisingly little attention Friday morning during Manhattan-based celebrity food columnist and author Mark Bittman’s visit to Burlington’s Intervale Center. But the Intervale itself received glowing reviews. Bittman, who periodically visits family members in Berlin, was joined at the Intervale [...]
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