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To help our farmers VAAFM has assembled a series of suggestions and resources to help with recovery.

Summer is a wonderful time to enjoy the beauty of Charlotte’s landscape. For many years the Charlotte Land Trust has put its red signs on conserved land throughout town as a way to highlight a major tool in preserving that landscape.

At the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NE-), we support dairy farmers and processors through grants, access to technical services, education, and events that promote the development, production, marketing, and distribution of regional dairy products. Our goal: to create resiliency and long-term sustainability for Northeast dairy…

The state Agency of Agriculture has awarded more than $1,600,000 in grants to 13 farm operations across Vermont. Two of those farms are in Charlotte.

Adam’s Berry Farm and the Grass Cattle Company were given a total of more than $276,000 of the amount awarded, meaning that Charlotte got more than 17 percent of the money allocated across the…

Both Grass Cattle Co and Adam's Berry Farm, in Charlotte, received grants from the Vermont Agency of Ag and Food Markets. The grant awarded 13 meat and ag producers out of a pool of 172 applicants. The grant focused on projects that addressed :

1. climate resiliency

2. infrastructure efficiency and capacity

3. worker safety and food safety and…

Vermont Business Magazine Champlain Valley Exposition has announced the 2024 Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame Inductees. With over 20 years of history and over 100 inductees, the Ag Hall of Fame is an honored tradition among Vermont farmers and growers, service providers, and dedicated employees.

VermontBiz The Working Lands Enterprise Board (WLEB) announces 51 awards to working lands businesses and organizations in 2024. The $2,329,561 in awards will support those who are earning a living off the land.

An On-Farm Readiness Review (OFRR) is a free, non-regulatory site visit to review safe produce handling on your farm. It serves as a direct educational opportunity for growers and producers to prepare for a Produce Safety Inspection or simply improve produce safety practices on their farm.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets is updating the guidelines for the Medium Farm Operations (MFO) General Permit. The public can provide feedback on these updates until June 23rd.

It's farmers market season. Here's where to find them in Chittenden County

The Best Management Practices (BMP) Program provides technical and financial assistance to farmers for the implementation of engineered, structural improvements on farmsteads which are designed to protect and improve water quality.

Applications to receive technical and/or financial assistance through the Agency’s Best Management Practices (BMP)…

The Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Initiative (WLEI) has invested $15.6 million in 446 farm, food, and forestry projects and leveraged an additional $24.6M in matching funds. To celebrate the investments and the resulting impacts, of the WLEI Board has released the latest Impact Report detailing the significant outcomes from the entire 11 years…

In December 2023, Clemmons Family Farm, Inc., an African American-led nonprofit organization, celebrated its purchase of the historic Clemmons farm in Vermont after a successful fundraising campaign.

In the face of our urgent climate crisis, landowners across the Champlain Valley are stepping up and conserving critical shorelands, wetlands, and flood-absorbing forests that serve as natural defenses against increasingly severe rainstorms.

Farmers who are actively working on or managing a commercial farm operation in the state, are residents of Vermont, and have not received this award in the past may qualify for a $5,000 award for land stewardship, innovation, and service to community.

Applications accepted until February 29, 2024.

Vermont is well known for its incredible natural resources. Communities throughout the Green Mountain State have chosen to conserve special lands like forests, river corridors and wetlands.

In Charlotte, the Charlotte Conservation Fund and Charlotte Land Trust have been instrumental in conserving our town’s natural resources.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM), in partnership with the A. Pizzagalli Family Farm Fund, is proud to announce the opening of the Vermont Barn Painting Project to new applicants for the 2024 painting season

Following these devastating events, the Vermont Agricultural Recovery Task Force was established last August to coordinate recovery efforts for Vermont’s agriculture and food systems. The Task Force has now released the Extreme Weather Impact & Recovery report to highlight the impacts, provide details and data, an overview of the various recovery…

The Northeast Dairy Business & Innovation Center announces the selected recipients of the Dairy Farm Modernization & Improvement Grants.

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In the wake of the catastrophic 2023 severe weather and floods that caused widespread damage along Vermont waterways, several business and government leaders are stepping up for farms fighting to remain solvent.

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