Dear Editor, Farming, like most human activity, impacts the environment. During the last two decades — and particularly since 2016 — Vermont has taken progressive and calculated steps to reduce one such environmental impact: nutrient loss from farmland. On Aug. […]
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Businesses brace for tariff crunch
By Elizabeth Hewitt/ VTDigger From dairy farms to newsrooms, Vermont businesses are bracing for a crunch from trade tensions between the United States and other countries caught up in a tariff tit-for-tat. State officials say they do not yet have […]
Local rules for local schools
Dear editor, Earl Butz was Richard Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture and was famous for telling farmers to “get big or get out.” He was responsible for rolling back many New Deal era policies that insulated farmers from the vagaries of […]
Vermont Farmers Food Center as a peacemaker
Dear Editor, Last weekend, the UN came to the Saturday Winters Farmers Market in Rutland. Actually, the Vermont Farmers Food Center (VFFC) hosted the “Grace Initiative” also called “Initiative for Governance, Reconciliation and Coexistence,” a nonprofit founded by Yvonne Lodico […]
Vermont Farmers Food Center’s Health Care Share completes second season
RUTLAND—Wednesday, Sept. 21, the Vermont Farmers Food Center’s (VFFC) Health Care Share (HCS) program distributed the final 125 farm shares to Rutland County residents for the second summer growing season. The program will now move to monthly distributions for the […]